//We think of illegals we’ve met or known personally – they’ve seemed like decent people and cost us little in the grand scheme of things.//
NO. All of them I know are criminals and scam the government and steal identities.
The sentence above describes LEGAL immigrants, not illegals.
You should get out of your mother’s basement more.
I’ve known thousands of immigrants..thousands of Mexicans, , hundreds of Indians and 3rd world “Canadian” co-workers, hundreds of East Europeans, dozens of Nigerians.
I’ve personally facilitated the depor tation of more immigrants than most on this site and held the same consistent position for about 63 years ... since the bracero debate. And I’ve read the statistics for 60 years.
In my experience 90% of Mexicans but only 10% of Russian immigrants are desireable. People of Mexican ancestry have the lowest rate of people eligible for welfare programs taking that welfare of any demographic group.
Refugees have the highest rate of welfare of any demographic group...bar none.
But 10% of Mexicans are undesireable. The undesireable ones are already in contact with the government. It costs nothing to identify them and quickly deport them.