The "rules for thee, but not for me" approach can be a slippery slope. One of the requirements of legal immigration is to be able to support yourself without having to rely on the government for handouts. I seriously doubt that the vast majority of legal immigrants would fall into the "treated like shit" category. It only applies to those illegal immigrants that cannot provide for themselves and resort to suckling on the government's teet.

Nearly every country is built on population displacement, and whether or not immigration made sense 100 years ago has no bearing on whether it makes sense, and to what extent, it does today.

The Japanese want to preserve their culture, their violent conquest of the Ainu notwithstanding. Americans want the same thing, as do Canadians, the French, and a hundred other countries. There's nothing wrong with that.

agree, thats garbage and needs to change

Constant Immigration is completely unneccessary, and wasnt a thing for most of America's existence.

For all of our history we would let a few people in and wait a generation to let them assimilate.

The modern immigration system is a Frankenstein invented by Ted Kennedy to essentially prop our borders open to more Democratic voters.

Yeah, and this isn't a new thing. There's a reason people call the American right xenophobic, and it's not for the reasons people say. It's because shit like this is all too common in their platform.

Now, the wall wouldn't even prevent immigration. Like was pointed out, if you build a 50 foot wall you don't prevent immigration, you create a market for 51 foot ladders.

Most illegal immigrants are overstayed visas and green cards. The normal flow of work immigration is that they come here, work, and usually go home, but when it's questionable if they will get back in it creates an incentive to overstay and not leave. That's where most of our immigration comes from. If you want to have less illegal immigration then reform the legal immigration system.

There's also the issue that without an incentive immigrants won't come here. Any immigration policy that wants to target illegal immigration without fixing the legal system will require targeting businesses that employ the illegal immigrants. Things like the wall are xenophobic vanity projects, not real policies.

I can agree with this. My only issue with some asylum seekers is those who pass over much closer countries to seek asylum to try and get into the US. Bypassing the nearest asylum country shows they are more interested in economic gain instead of asylum.

If you are already being forced to move 1000 miles, why not go another 500 for better economic opportunity? That just makes good sense if you see it from the perspective of the person making the move.

The Democrats don't care. They just want more permanent underclass voters.

That is abusing the "asylum" laws to circumvent the legal immigration process that many other immigrants who can sustain their own living without relying on the government wait in line for. I will always prioritize America first when it comes to immigration and welcome the legal immigrants with open arms that can be a net positive to the country.

At the cost of it's moral standing I guess.

You'd be right in line with the conservatives during WW2 denying asylum to jews.