I believe you. My thinking is what do you do about it. I don't have a knee-jerk reaction against rounding them up and shipping them out, I just don't think it's going to be done.
OK, I'm a little sympathetic in the sense if I were a Mexican I'd be trying to get in this country in whatever way, but I don't have a problem with shipping them back either.
But I doubt it's going to be done so what do you do about it?
What turned it around for me was hearing how big city mayors were giving orders to police to ignore illegal residency. At that point, I figured it was time for Plan B.
Also, my big concern is not the economics, but security. Our border is out of control. It makes sense to me to give the illegals who don't wish to cause us damage an incentive to become legal. It's reasonable to think this would shrink the pool of where to look for those who do want to harm us. This also should get local law enforcement back into the act of assisting INS or whatever it is they are calling it now.
And as noted, legals would be get the same wage & job protection & be subject to the same taxes as natives making them less competitive.
You're right that security is a big issue with illegal immigration........I just cannot fathom how under this Homeland Security initiative gray haired folks in airports are sometimes subject to intense scrutiny yet for all intents lack of protection along the border allows all sorts of murderers, rapists, drug dealers, diseased and possible terrorists to enter almost at will......it's mindboggling that the American public is not up in arms over this travesty.
Another aspect of this to consider is the fact that literally millions of legal and illegal immigrants depend on welfare style benefits for their very survival because they do not know the language and have no skills.....what happens if there's an economic emergency and the checks stop? How long would it take for numerous communities, large and small, to be swarmed by a tide of humanity that will most likely overwhelm any police force? Does anyone in the useful idiot/open border crowd ever stop to consider the implications of such a happening?