But the key is that anyone petitioning to become an American will be self-supporting and not just a drain on our economy.
I don't care if you're a refugee from Darfur or Venezuela, if you're not going to work and support yourselves and be proud of AMERICA, you're not welcome.
Don't come here to send your money back to your real country and brag about your real country. We are not impressed.
If you're coming here to become AMERICANS, and you're with us, and you're not just supporting your real country, then bienvenidos. Otherwise, adios.
“I agree that we need to focus on hard numbers. How many immigrants per year can we allow? I don’t know.”
For about a decade, the total entries, legal and illegal, have been in the 1.5 - 2.0 million per year, and maybe more some years when various small amnesties increased the legal numbers. Of course, it remains to be seen what will happen with the 12 - 20 million illegal aliens who’ve joined us since the 1986 amnesty.
But if we don’t get control of it soon, we’ll have de facto open borders within another decade or two, and long-term Democrat majority. And the Bush/Rove plan to win legions of Hispanic voters was always nothing but TexMex nonsense, IMO.