I asked you for specifics on what was "broken." The pro-amnesty, open-borders types say this all the time. It has become code for comprehensive immigration reform. Yes, we need some reform, but the system is not broken. It is just not being enforced.
No argument with your final statement. Your penultimate sentence is shocking. Perhaps you could consider that the one million legal immigrants invited to become citizens every year are replacements for the one million abortions of potential native-born citizens.
Nonsense. We are not having a population problem nor do we need a mass infusion of low skilled, uneducated immigrants. We have an abundant supply of our own. FYI: Our fertility rate is 2.06 children born/woman (2013 est.), which is just at about replacement level.
Yes abortion does affect our population growth. For example, there would be twice as many blacks as there are today. The black community is the biggest user of abortion services.
Why do you dismiss the illegal immigration as being less of a problem? Having had a career in the state dept, which has the task of authorizing visas to foreigners, I would have thought that people sneaking in with minimal negative consequences, would have really irritated you. Do you leave your own doors unlocked?
Illegal immigration is a problem more easily solved than legal immigration. At least twice as many legal immigrants enter this country annually as illegal aliens. They are mostly the same kinds of people. Legal immigrants can vote, receive welfare services, vote, etc. Their impact is far greater on our society.
Legal immigration has become the third rail of American politics. You can't discuss it without being described as a nativist and racist. Like the proverbial frog being boiled slowly alive on the stove, legal immigration is insidiously destroying this country. Immigration to America is a privilege, not a right, and our immigration policies should serve the best interests of this country.
If you want a chilling picture of how unemployment is affecting young Americans, read this: Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
"If you're a high school dropout you're talking about 30 percent working. Among high school grads who graduated from high school in the last three years -- we do a separate survey of them the fall after graduation -- 45 percent of them held a job, the lowest in the last 50 years we've been collecting this data. And to make it worse, of that 45 percent, only half of them were able to get a full-time job. Only one in five young high school grads, not in college, [is] working full-time.
And we are now talking about bringing in 33 million more legal immigrants over the next ten years--most of them with a high school degree or less. This is pure insanity on so many levels.
That is what I call broken. And I do not speak in code, I say what I mean. I am not for amnesty, I am not for any program that plans to bring in 33 million more immigrants in the next ten years.
Okay?
25 years ago my husband and I sailed into San Diego in our boat that had a huge Welsh Dragon painted on each bow, and a Canadian flag painted on each side of the hull at the stern. An INS agent surmised that we were sneaking in, in broad daylight, and harassed us for three days, hoping that he could fine us as the San Diego office had fined other Canadian flag yachts at about the same time.
I recognized that he was getting job satisfaction by harassing middle-class Caucasians, because the situation at California's border was uncontrollable -no job satisfaction at all.
That is what I mean by broken. Wheel-spinning, ineffectiveness, and bullying of the vulnerable.