In the whole immigration debate - the way to look at it: The US has accepted 20-30million economic refugees. More than any country at any time in the history of the world. And leftists accuse the US of being cruel when some of us insist that this chaos be regulated?!
Although, as a percentage of population, it's not that much more as a percentage of population than came here back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for much the same reasons.