Snow throws out the good news and the bad news, and concludes, America is still a great place. We know all that Tony. Most Americans want to make sure this nation remains a great place far into the future. Amnesty for illegals and continued open borders isn't the right way to go. Period.
Illegal immigration is about breaking US law, abusing the system and generally undermining the lives of law abiding US citizens. Promoting illegal immigration also undermines the efforts of foreigners to become legal citizens at some future date. Illegals have no rights. They shouldn't be given special treatment and allowed to go to the head of the line, in front of folks who've followed the legal immigration process from the get-go.
Most Americans have no problem with legal immigration. Some might want to reduce the over annual legal immigration numbers, some may want to increase those numbers. However, the vast majority of Americans oppose illegal immigration, backdoor guest worker-amnesty, employers who hire illegals and illegals who drain funding from the US social welfare system.
Illegal immigration is wrong and it needs to stop.
So, they bolster legal immigration with illegal aliens.
I've posted this before, I'll post it again:
In a recent update of estimates prepared for the panel, Ronald Lee and Timothy Miller found that each additional immigrant with characteristics (such as age, education, and family size) typical of recent immigrants has a “net present value” of $46,000. That is, a new immigrant’s impact over the next 75 years is expected to be equivalent to a one-time investment of $46,000. But Lee and Miller estimate that the country would need to admit an additional 5 million immigrants per year, quintupling the current level of immigration, in order to achieve long-term balance in the Social Security trust fund. A recent report from the United Nations Population Division reached a similar conclusion for European countries, announcing that even much larger migration flows than are currently permitted would not counterbalance the effects of population aging.To maintain the 2000 ratio between the working-age population (people between the ages of 20 and 64) and the older population (people ages 65 and older), the United States would need roughly 95 million more working-age persons in 2025, in addition to those already expected at current levels of immigration. In other words, if the entire working-age population of Mexico were to move to the United States in 2025, there still would not be enough people to restore the old-age dependency ratio of 2000. -- Report on Government Spending
We kill 1.3 million of our own every year in the name of choice, the baby boomers are retiring at an increasingly dizzying rate, we squandered the monies out into the SS system, and now we're basically screwed.
Illegal aliens are the symptom, not the disease.