They earned that money. If we turned off the welfare for illegals, we'd get only those that pill their own weight. I'd happily give them work permits.
Would you put up with restrictions on transferring YOUR money across national borders?
I don't care.
They have no right to be here in the first place.
And this country is in a crap load of personal and governmental debt; we cannot afford to have U.S. capital slipping southward to a country we ALREADY have a trade deficit with. Moreover, with Mexico as big of a mess as it is, it is a HUGE mistake to have our economies linked (as NAFTA has done). Finally, I would like to point out that Bill Clinton sent a cool 20 billion in lavish subsidies to that mess just south of us.
If we turned off the welfare for illegals, we'd get only those that pill their own weight. I'd happily give them work permits.
There are many more issues at stake than merely economics and crime--like culture, identity, and our long-term survival as a coherent nation.
Would you put up with restrictions on transferring YOUR money across national borders?
Yes. I am in favor of tariffs. Like I said before, it is a HUGE mistake for us to share an economy with another large, sovereign nation--particularly one that is so messy.