[Blennos]

To my mind, every illegal alien is a criminal. They broke our laws by coming into our country illegally. This seems to be a very difficult concept for many to understand.

[spintreebob]

Entering the US without playing mother-may-I with DHS is a minor paperwork offense equivalent to a parking ticket.

HR4437 intended to change it to a felony. HR4437 lost bigly in Congress. Protests and counter-protests of HR4437 moved illegal immigration to a top 20 issue 13 years ago. Before HR4437 is was not in the top 50 issues in FR. It was not in the top 50 issues in any forum.

[ChessExpert]

“To my mind, every illegal alien is a criminal.”

How can anyone argue with that? (Yet they do.)

This is an era when the US is beset by Muslim terrorism. I don’t know if there was ever a time when we should have tolerated illegal immigration. In this era, we should not tolerate illegal immigration.

Democrats keep harping on the popular vote. How much of that comes from illegal immigrants? It is quite possible that illegal immigrants voting illegally pushed Hillary over the top in the popular vote. It is not OK for foreigners to decide our elections (Federal, state or local), but it is possible that they have decided some elections.

Should we be surprised that illegal immigrants commit crimes in the US? Mark Steyn once wrote that America makes legal immigration hard, illegal immigration easy. This process seems to select law-breakers.