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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Yeah... not so much. The reason I absolutely can't get mad at Central Americans coming here illegally is that between about 1906 and 2006, the US sent troops to Mexico and Central America 106 times, in clear violation of those countries' sovereignty and international law, usually to protect the interests of the likes of United Fruit. We have absolutely zero moral leg to stand on here. [/quote]

So your logic is that because Country A did something bad to Country B, the residents of Country B have a never-ending option to just go live in Country A whenever they feel like it?
Hmm.  So, the Irish can just go plop themselves in Britain, the Chinese (and numerous other Asian countries) can just show up in Tokyo, the former subjects of the Ottoman Empire have a standing invitation to Istanbul . . . . ?

It is this type of reasoning (or lack thereof) that resulted in Trump getting elected.
Am I sympathetic to the fact that many Central American illegal immigrants fled terrible circumstances?  Yes. 
But there are a lot of places in the world with terrible circumstances, filled with would-be refugees who would like to immigrate here.  Many of them may also come from countries which have---at some point in the past---been destabilized by the actions of the US or its allies.  They have to go through the regular immigration process.

The US derives its amazing energy from its immigrants---I just think that there needs to be an immigration system that gives all would-be immigrants a fair playing field, not favor one group due to their geographic advantage resulting from a lack of oceanic barriers.

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