Such as breaking our laws and displacing our workers?
They are prepared to contribute to a hard working moral society.
By breaking our laws and displacing our workers?
We do not necessarily improve the country by excluding them arbitrarily.
I know its out of vogue but what is arbitrary about enforcing of immigration laws?
Those that are invited to stay are done so with the knowledge that they are not eligible for handouts or any benefits other than those they earn going forward.
But they are eligible, thats the point.
Tell you what, control the border, get unemployment down to 4%, get every municipality, town, city, every state and the federal government to stop giving them benefits and then we can have a actual discussion of granting them legal status.
It is arbitrary if a single limited criteria is used as the only decision maker. for instance you sir should lose your driver's license for speeding. You broke the law. Don't deny it, at some point in your life you have exceeding the speed limit in violation of the law and put other peoples live at risk by exceeding the deemed safe speed limit. The fact that you haven't been caught does not change the fact that you are a lawbreaker. How's that for arbitrary.
Since the only rational way to bring the system into legal control is to write new laws expressing the exact requirements limitations and controls that must be in place, enforcing immigration laws would be part of the fix
But they are eligible, thats the point.<\i>
Only because because the system is operating outside legal control. Nothing prevents a law restricting government assistance as a condition for legal residence status other than irrational resistance to any effort at resolving the issue by branding it as amnesty.
Tell you what, control the border, get unemployment down to 4%, get every municipality, town, city, every state and the federal government to stop giving them benefits and then we can have a actual discussion of granting them legal status.
Aside from the unemployment factor which really is controlled by other issues than immigration, you have stated my position as being the one that must be met yet are arguing against it. I fail to see the logic.