But forcing innocent citizens to PAY FOR THEM is OK ?
And there is the biggest rub of all.
Border leakage, though it happened, was an issue of far smaller impact when America wasn't trying hard to be a welfare state. If they weren't citizens, there was still a huge incentive for them to behave themselves otherwise.
High minded political philosophy that deemed various forms of welfare a right to all who were in the country no matter how, has truly warped our picture.