when America was growing and needed people—maybe that was OK—remember the law was put in to help Blacks Freed slavery. Now the USA is one of the only nations that does this. If we ended welfare and free junk—people wouldn’t flood in. We are being played for suckers. Trump sees it—now others are. If your an illegal—you get no free junk—no citizenship—no free food, education health care etc. i don’t blame people from the 3rd world from coming here—I would (just as my people came from an occupied and ensalved Ireland long ago). We just can’t afford it now.
I have a second cousin... my father’s cousin. He’s now 75, and has had a successful professional career as a high-end EE.
When he was younger, he had been through WWII in Budapest, and was one of the Jews who was threatened, but somehow bypassed. After the war, he came to the US, and my father (who had very little money) sponsored him and his parents. In effect, he was guaranteeing they would never be on what little dole there was (and we had little enough ourselves). Those were in the days when these sorts of things were enforced and immigration was taken seriously.
It will be very difficult to return to that. However, a wall, and end to birthright citizeship, universal e-verify, end to sanctuary cities, strict deportation and/or imprisonment of alien felons... these would go a long way towards restoring sanity and halting the ebb of national identity. WHile we’re at it, lets reform legal immigration to favor the intelligent and accomplished, too.