Immigration should be equal, from around the world, and people who come here should come with something more to offer this country than a set of muscles.
This morning a man called in on the radio to tell about his wife, from Romania... she was originally here on a visa, they married, had a child who is in a gifted child program, they tried to get her papers to be legal and the judge said she has to return to Romania and wait her turn to come into the country and can leave the child here or take her with her....oh, the woman has a masters in one of the sciences and has/had a very good job here.
This sounds cruel, but I think people like this woman is worth ten of the illegal pregnant women (Adam Housely showed on FOX) coming across the border right now .... since they are coming alone, I can think of no other reason than to have their child in the USA.. and then will be on ADC, Medicaid, food stamps, etc..
The other issue to that article (in my mind) is we don't have the natural resources to support that kind of population growth. Water is a huge issue this side of the Rockies and it's growing more serious each year our drought persists.
Well, you know I agree with you. I just don't know what the answer is and so I'll support the one person who is actually proposing something that is doable and not cruel.
I meant to mention also, Carolyn, that given where you live I know you probably see and suffer the effects of illegal immigration more than a lot of us do. I will support any effort you make to push Congress to actually do something instead of just talk about it.
"something more to offer this country than a set of muscles."
The last thing we need is more muscles - the trend of the world is toward more technology, automation etc. Ditch digging jobs are drying up not increasing.