As bad as illegal immigration is, our legal immigration policies that allow 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants and 640,000 guest workers a year are far more damaging. Approximately 30 million legal immigrants have entered this country since 1990. 87% of them are minorities as defined by the USG. They use welfare programs to a significantly higher degree than the native born.
Yes I agree. We should be letting no more than about 250,000 per year in through legal immigration. The US has no more responsibility to allow the rest of the world into our country than China or Russia or any other country.
The illegal immigration is the worst though because we can’t control how many come and who comes. We are the greatest country on Earth and we are getting the dregs of society from mostly Mexico. No country can absorb the entire underclass of another country and retain its national identity and economical stability.