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[quote=Anonymous]I am so sick of Democrats pulling the race card anytime someone criticizes illegal immigration.  Frankly, I think the Democrat’s immigration policies are racist.

Unless you feel that we should open our borders and allow unlimited immigration, we need to have some limits in place.  I haven’t heard anyone arguing for unlimited immigration, although if we were to adopt such a policy I think Europe would be delighted to load up boatloads of Syrian immigrants that have caused a strain on their economies and ship them to us.

Once you accept the needs for limits (whatever that limit may be), each illegal immigrant means that we either strain our country past the level we had determined was acceptable, or we take away a slot from a legal immigrant.

I completely agree that the vast majority of illegal immigrants only want to work hard to make a better life for themselves and their families, and given the opportunity would be productive citizens in their communities.  I don’t, however, think that they would be better citizens than the legal immigrants who also just want to work hard to make a better life for themselves and their families, AND are willing to jump through every administrative hurdle we ask of them, AND wait patiently for years.

Moreover, while I’m sure most illegal (or legal) immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America would make excellent citizens if given the chance to escape a terrible situation and make a better life for themselves and their families, I think there are people all over the world who would likewise make excellent citizens if given the chance to escape a terrible situation and make a better life for themselves and their families.  How about those Syrian refugees we mentioned earlier, or Sudanese refugees who have had years of genocide and civil war?  How about refugees from Gaza and maybe Lebanon?  The World Food Programme lists 16 countries on their Home Page as emergencies - I bet a lot of their residents would do anything they could to avoid having to watch their families starve.  There are countries with child soldiers, child marriage, female circumcision, honor killings, etc.  I bet a lot of those people would love the chance to be good American citizens.  Google says there are 6.6 million people living in refugee camps, do you think they’d be willing to work hard for their families in America?  We are allies with Ukraine - should we increase their immigration quota?  How about the Afghan translators and other support staff who helped our troops during the war, saving countless American lives, on the promise that we would protect them.  Helping us then has put not only their lives, but the lives of their families as well, at risk.  They have already contributed to America, why haven’t we given them citizenship?  We haven’t even given all Americans citizenship.  I don’t know if the residents of American Samoa actually want citizenship, but I think we ought to at least ask them.

If we want to say that we’re only going to accept immigrants from North, Central, and South America as some sort of good neighbor policy, then fine, but let’s be honest about it.  Giving preference to those regions means limiting immigration from others.  As race is correlated with geography, this would also mean that we would be favoring some races over others, and it would have nothing to do with their potential to be good citizens.

As it stands now, the most effective route to immigrate to America seems to be to cross illegally and hide until the political climate favors another amnesty.  In doing so, not only do they face physical danger and exploitation by the coyotes who promise to help them immigrate, but once here, they are vulnerable without the protections a legal status would afford.  They can’t demand minimum wage or safe labor conditions.  Regulations about child labor don’t apply because as far as the regulators are concerned, the child isn’t in the US.  If they are victims of a crime, they’re not likely to approach the police to report it.  The current system is brutal and harms everyone involved. Perpetuating it isn’t a benevolent act of racial tolerance.

We need to sit down and set realistic immigration quotas.  I have no idea what those numbers should be, maybe we should dramatically increase them.  Let’s make sure we have the capability to accommodate that number.  If that means we need to hire more bureaucrats, appoint more judges, design web pages and create apps, build facilities, etc., let’s do it.  Let’s also lock down our border. I don’t know if that requires a wall or not, and I suspect that the politicians don’t either. Get some experts, any experts, to put together a plan and let’s start with that.[/quote]

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