Posted on 06/02/2007 10:48:26 AM PDT by JohnLocke23
I never said I wanted to "by and large" exclude non-Mexican immigration. The reality is that Mexico does border the US and much of the immigration problem does seem to stem from Mexican immigration - I find little concern about Canadian immigration (legal or otherwise) by contrast. More realistic limits on legal Mexican immigration would seem to solve the issues surrounding illegal immigrants.
“I find little concern about Canadian immigration (legal or otherwise) by contrast.”
The reason for that would be that there is so little of either. Canada is a country of only 20 million.
In principle it doesn't. We could keep immigration quotas from other countries just as they are and still raise the quotas from Mexico. Personally, I don't really have much of a problem with raising overall total legal immigration quotas.
Even if we didn't, I'd say that Mexico and Canada are special cases just because they border the US. With most other places, you do have a chokepoint at points of entry into the US via plane or ship while with Mexico and Canada you have thousands of miles of border to guard and many places for border control to fail. Reasonably, we should have a different policy with respect to these different situations.
BTW the population of Canada is 33 million and Mexico is 108 million.
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