Thank you for that. We have always been a compassionate country, relaxing our immigration laws to recieve politically oppressed people. Mostly because their actual lives were in jeopardy.
Think of all the totalitarian regimes we have relieved of their dissidents. The Mariel boat lift out of Cuba being one. Haiti another. Viet Namese, Cambodians, laotians, Chinese, Koreans, Tibetans, Hungarians, Chechzs and Poles to mention a few others.
On top of that are greencard workers and actual legal immigrants. These add up to several million a year. We are at the moment at near or as near to full employment as a country can get. That won't last.
I would like to see the border closed, and secured so the situation will stabilize. With the pressure of new invaders gone, there is a likely chance that attitudes to those already here will not be as antagonistic.
But, if we are to repeat the mistakes brought by the amnesty of 1986, there will be Hell to pay tremendous political upheaval.
Well I think the problem with the prior bill was that there was no real border enforcement, no identifer card for employment(Let it be called the mark of the beast I dont care), and also some things had a side effect of ending circular migration when it didnt have too.
I guess that the reason why I feel something comprehensive has got to happen to solve it. Including expanding free trade in this hemisphsere and South America to which I know has become quite a unpopular thing to advocate on here as of late lol.