America Needs a Sensible Approach to Illegal Immigration

Townhall.com ^ | July 30, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

Can we be honest about illegal immigration?

It is a common challenge to almost every advanced Western country that is adjacent to poorer nations.

American employers and ethnic activists have long colluded to weaken border enforcement and render immigration law meaningless. The former wanted greater profits from cheaper labor, the latter wished more political clout for themselves.

Mexico conspired, too. It received billions of easy dollars in remittances from its expatriates in America. Mexico had few qualms about letting millions of its own citizens illegally cross its northern border into the United States -- even though the Mexican government would never tolerate millions of Central Americans illegally crossing the border to become permanent residents of Mexico.

For better or worse, illegal immigration is tied to race and ethnicity. No doubt, ignorant racism drives some to oppose illegal immigration. But by the same token, the advocates of open borders, many of them with strong ties to Mexico, would not be so energized about the issue if hundreds of thousands of Europeans or Africans were entering the U.S. illegally each year.

[Savage Beast]

Yes. Like abolish it.

[GOPJ]

American employers and ethnic activists have long colluded to weaken border enforcement and render immigration law meaningless. The former wanted greater profits from cheaper labor, the latter wished more political clout for themselves.

I want to know how much money these groups have used to buy off our congressmen and woman and how much they've donated to varius corrupt 'foundations' run by the crooks running the United States...

NONE of the illegals should be made legal. Send them home and replace them with people from the same countries who respected our laws enough to get in line. (If we must have a few million Mexicans that's how to do it.) NO ILLEGALS. SEND THEM ALL HOME.

[9YearLurker]

Yep.

They’ll for decades be on the bottom rungs here, soaking up taxpayer funds and voting our country to the Left.

But go home and they’ll bring new skills and entrepreneurial vigor to their countries—and probably help to nudge their countries to the right.

They’ve stolen the education and resources they’ve got while they’re here, and we certainly don’t owe them or their children any more.

[GOPJ]

But go home and they’ll bring new skills and entrepreneurial vigor to their countries—and probably help to nudge their countries to the right.

That's a good point. These third world hellhholes dump people here so they'll be 'out of their hair' and so they'll send money 'home'. Which benefit their economies at the expense of ours.

If we sent them back their elites would have to deal with them... and they'd be dealing with people who had a taste of what it was like living in a free country.

With any luck some of these hellholes would have their elites thrown out of office...

[JimRed]

Deport every illegal, build the fence.

Wrong order. Fence (WALL) first, or they'll all be back.