I don’t know why this is so difficult. Immigration laws should serve the interests of citizens.
Citizens should have a say in how many people are allowed to immigrate each year, and what kinds of people, and from where, because these are people who we are agreeing will share our sovereignty with us. We are agreeing that, a few years down the road, they will have an equal say in everything we do.
Immigration law should not be used to manipulate demographic patterns, or voting patterns, or labor costs. When that becomes its purpose we’ve lost the plot.
People who are not citizens do not have an automatic God-given right to be here. If our forefathers fought for independence its because we chose to be separate and to mark out our own course. We have always been open to immigration but there should be nothing automatic about that. For sure, when real unemployment is nearing 20% and you have millions out of work including millions they don’t even bother to count anymore they’ve been unemployed so long, immigration should be very limited.
There should be some “assimilation index”.
If the immigrants are assimilating, let them in.
When they start balkanizing and not assimilating to our culture, then slow the influx down for a few years.
This idea really ticks off libs and liberts. For reasons I’ll keep to myself, Western culture has no value to them.
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Holy Cow- that’s PRECISELY what soemoen from the GOP SHOULD be sayign before Congress- over and over and over again until the peopel in congress get it through their thick self righteous skulls that they work for US!- but apparently thsoe who represent US have NO itnerest in actually representign US