“The billions of dollars a year in remittances sent back home by foreign born relatives/friends here (which the likes of you have welcomed) is financing the continuing invasion of illegals into this country.”
Do you have a problem with illegal immigrants, or do you have a problem with remittances? Remittances are sent home by legal immigrants who earn money in America by working. Is this a problem for you? If so, why?
If they are illegal, then remittances aren’t an issue. They should be deported and sent home.
“all the children they’ll have here”
Do you believe that first-generation American citizens should be deported from America to the home country that their parents came from?
“What the hell has that got to do with the poverty of the vast majority of its people.”
The point being that immigration to the United States is not at the level that you portray it as, nor is everyone in these countries going to give up the life that they do have to come to America. For one, America isn’t even the closest destination - there are other places that provided a similar enough standard of living which are far, far closer.
The immigrants that America tends to get, legally and illegally, tend to be geographically close to America, (Mexico and Canada) or to share ties with America through other means, (Philippines). I notice you entirely ignored my point about the Philippines.
“They are here to contribute.” To which country?
Legal immigrants? To America?
See, here’s what I think.
You don’t like Immigration. It doesn’t matter whether it’s legal or illegal. Your opposition to illegal immigration is a smokescreen. You don’t care whether they do or do not have papers, just that they aren’t from America. You don’t like the fact that immigrants can and do come to America, while Americans are out of work. You believe that unless every American has a job that legal immigrants have no place here.
Is that correct? If that’s not so, then please explain how I have pegged you incorrectly. It’s not an either or preposition. Legal immigrants who work and come to America help Americans get and keep jobs. They create jobs (through demand), and they also produce jobs through their labour the same way that American citizens do. They bring investment into America too.
I agree that illegal immigration is a problem - and that if an Immigrant wants to come to America that they should be willing to support themselves, and not receive benefits from the state. I believe that very strongly. The problem isn’t the immigration - it’s the welfare state.
Try connecting my numbered answers to your numbered points or don’t bother responding. I will not waste my time with someone who can’t answer their own points when I refute them. You keep shifting ground as if you are too dumb or dishonest to do otherwise!