[txdoda]

Personally,I am leaning toward increasing our immigration quotas and stopping the illegal immigration altogether. >>>>>>

Our immigration quotas should be set to what we need & what we can handled. In this 'day & age' all immigrants should have backround checks.

No one should be allowed to just walk in from any country.

[americanbychoice]

Agree with that. "Walking in from any country" would be illegal. I also agree on Background checks. I do believe Legal Immigrants have to undergo those.

[Vigilanteman]

In this 'day & age' all immigrants should have backround checks.

I have friends (U.S. Citizens) who are married to foreign nationals. As part of the application process for an immigrant visa, they are required to produce a clean police record and show financial means or skills for self-support or have a guarantee from their spouse of such support. This are the very basic of a number of logical requirements.

Illegal immigrants, of course, do none of this-- they simply wade a river, climb a fence or pay a coyote. Even during the 1870-1910 era of massive legal immigration, many were turned away at Ellis Island for any number of reasons-- TB, insanity and other health-related ailments being the most common.