Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
"Closing the borders!" amounts to a phantom solution.
The fact is undesirables find it so easy to enter legally, closing the border to illegals, solves virtually nothing.
Instead, if you devoted resources to finding and closing loopholes/mistakes that exist in the regular run of people entering, you would be further ahead.
That "illegals" are such a tiny fraction of the problem simply points to what a waste it would be to throw huge resources at it.
Well, look at the crime committed by illegal immigrants. Here are some statistics, and the report does acknowledge that it may not be indicative of the country as a whole. And look at the jobs they take from Americans, and not just "the jobs that Americans won't do". Anyway, I agree that we need to close the loopholes that people use, but the illegals are a larger problem than you make them out to be. But for Pete's sake, entering illegally is against the law. They should be forced to leave, and then if they want to reenter, make them do it the legal way, at the back of the line. I have no problems with legal immigration, my own mother is a resident alien. Our country was built on immigration.