I can understand the desire for comprehensive immigration reform. Our current system is disfunctional and we have no mechanism to control illegal immigration.
The problem is that it is impossible for Congress to come up with a comprehensive plan that addresses the illegal immigration problem. Any plan that can be passed will include all of the amnesty and citizenship goodies, but the hard work of controlling the border and employment will be left undone. This will always be the case until a large enough group of Constitutional conservatives can be elected to pass border enforcement and employment control first.
The way the Congress is stacked now, the only winning move on immigration reform is not to play.
No, it isn't. Enforcement of the current system is disfunctional. Make EVerify the law of the land, fine and jail anyone who abets the invaders, and give rewards to US citizens who turn in invaders, alive and unharmed.
The only "pathway to citizenship" for the invaders who steal our jobs and government benefits is to practice it in their homelands!
There is no "desire for comprehensive immigration reform" among real constitutional conservatives who want to save the US!
Our immigration system is dysfunctional ONLY because the government won’t follow it’s own laws! Plus, even IF we need reform - we need to deal with the border first and then maybe deal with the illegals here but the ideal that we need comprehensive reform is elites ruses to not close the borders and pass amnesty
We do have a system, it is called enforcement of the existing laws.
What is really dysfunctional is our LEGAL IMMIGRATION system, which imports too many immigrants--1.2 million annually more than the rest of the world combined--with too little skills and education. Legal immigration is a much bigger problem than illegal immigration.
The system isn’t dysfunctional, it is not allowed to functional. It is inequitable in that it facilitates the immigration of unskilled, uneducated Third Worlders who hate America.