Politicians understand the immigration laws very well. They just don’t care what the voter wants. We don’t need new laws, we just need our existing laws enforced. People understand what’s really going on. It’s all politics. The time has come to replace politicians that do not want to enforce our immigration laws. For those that think we can’t deport these people, look at what President Ike did. Something like 13 million were deported. Can’t be done? Think again.
I'll try and find a link. It is unreal how stupid this woman's argument is. Clueless doesn't even come close.
Insanity. We bring in 1.2 million LEGAL immigrants a year, more than the rest of the world combined. 25% of the adults lack even a high school degree. We will add 130 million to our population in the next 40 years, 75% due to immigration.
We need to reduce our immigration numbers and go to a merit based system that brings in the skills we need to be competititve in the global economy. There has to be limits in terms of numbers. 57% of immigrants use at least one welfare program. We are importing poverty.
Milton Friedman said, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We have both.
I’m waiting for an illegal somewhere to run for office (and endanger) the seat of some liberal.
Suddenly the left would be the biggest border hawks on the planet.
Misunderstanding that fact is the biggest reason why Rick Perry failed and why Marco Rubio will have a very hard time with his Dream Act. Americans are not by nature lawbreakers. Nor do they want to see their hard earned taxed income go for enticements or rewards to those who break the law. If the GOP-E would stop trying to join the democrats in making this a racial issue, they would have more success with legal voters.
There are some truisms about immigration that need to be addressed.
1) America can handle immigration, especially of working people, but there is a limit to how many and how fast, and also how fast they can integrate.
2) The legal immigration process is an intolerable mess. For acceptable foreigners outside or inside of the US, the process should be no more than 5 years long. Admissions should have general quotas by country, but with enough flexibility to also allow in people with very desirable qualities. People already in the US should not have to leave the US to apply, which is just stupid.
3) Because of statutory neglect by the federal government, an entire generation of illegal aliens has grown up inside the US. They are entirely integrated, speak English, have American educations, and importantly, they do not maintain ties with “the old country”. They are already “de facto” Americans, needing only papers. To deport them would be as cruel as deporting random other Americans to foreign countries.
4) Conversely, there are many violent criminal illegal aliens that the US wants to deport, but Mexico, which has long been “soft on crime, but hard on legal guns”, is now begging the US to not deport so many violent criminals to them, who instantly become drug cartel killers.
This may require the building of US internment facilities just north of the border, to hold these thugs until Mexico accepts them back. Truthfully, this is better for us, too, by just keeping them off the streets.