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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone actually support letting in 8000 migrants a day??? Or possibly even double that with what our actually capacity it to process, house, or even deport them.

What other country in the world would even allow this? Not even the progressive European countries allow this?[/quote]

I support immigration.  I do think the rate has to be limited. I have no idea what number we can reasonably absorb and support, but I know there is a limiting factor.  I can remember the flood of Syrian refugees throwing some European economies into crisis, purely because of their volume, which I think had a destabilizing effect on the EU as a whole.

Once we determine the “correct” number for immigration, then we need to determine how to allot it. I do believe in the Statue of Liberty’s promise. I do believe that most of the people crossing the border sincerely want to build a better life for themselves and their families.  I think most of them would eventually make wonderful citizens. Do I think they’d make better citizens than those who follow our immigration procedures, jump through all our hoops, and still wait years for their turn?  Would they be better citizens than the Syrian refugees, or the Ukrainian refugees?  How about Haitian refugees?  Sudan suffered through years of genocide and seems to be destabilizing, I bet there are a lot of desperate people there who would be good citizens.  Here’s a crazy idea, how about we make good on our promises to the Afghans who helped us, putting themselves and their while families at risk, because I bet they’d be good citizens too. Maybe we could really go wild and start by granting citizenship to American Samoans - they’ve been good Americans for generations, they’d probably be good citizens too.

The point is, that unless you think we can just open our borders and allow unlimited immigration, hard choices have to be made. There are desperate people all over the world, who would jump at the chance to be good US citizens, because their likely alternative is death.  Do we want to limit immigration to Mexican nationals or those coming over our southern border, as a type of good neighbor policy?  That’s probably the most racist option available, but from a practical standpoint, it has a certain logic. If that’s going to be our policy, let’s state it and stand behind it. Even if we apportion 100% of our immigration quota to immigration from Mexico, I am dubious that we can accommodate 100% of those wanting to come.

Moreover, we should either enforce our immigration procedures or drop them. It seems like our most common method immigration has become:
1.  Sneak over the border.
2.  Hide for years from official notice.
3.  Wait for an amnesty. 
This not only puts the illegal immigrants in tremendous danger, both in coming here and in trying to live here without the safeguards legal residents have, it is a cruel farce to those who are trying to immigrate the way we tell them they should.

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Wow,
Well written and thought out post.

Basically if we currently can’t take care of our veterans and can fix the giant homeless issues in NY, LA, San Fran, Portland, and basically everywhere, how can we expect to accommodate millions of migrants?? Yes, eventually many may end up working and contributing, but at the beginning they are on public assistance, public housing, public healthcare paid by the taxpayer. How about we help the people who have served our country and current homeless population first.  Heck, I’m sure lots of homeless in NYC would love to be out up in a 4 Star  hotel  like the migrants are given there?[/quote]

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