(01-14-2017, 10:56 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-14-2017, 10:12 AM)flbones too Wrote: 1 million immigrants coming annually is too many. We already have 300+ million people. We need to grow from natural increase now, not immigration. A max of 100,000 immigrants a year is enough. All illegal aliens should be deported, they're violating the law.
So lets be clear, here, you want American children to live in Mexican slums just because of the immigration status of their parents? What about people who were brought over as small children, have no memory of their home country, and see themselves as Americans? Do you want to send those back to a country they do not consider their own? Because that is what will happen by "deporting all illegal immigrants".
It's fine if you are concerned about illegal immigration, but mass deportations of people already here are not the answer.
Oh, think of the children!
I don't personally mind making provisions for the categories of illegal aliens you mentioned, provided that steps like e-verify and border security (The Great Wall of Trump!) make it a one-time thing and not a repeat of Reagan's amnesty law.
I also can't help but note that there is a shifty pattern of discourse where the permissible means of reference to these countries changes depending on the circumstances. There's a lot of push back on "how dare you refer to <country x> as a barbarous Third World country" until you talk about sending people back to those places, in which case we are assured they are in fact crumbling, crime-ridden wastelands to which repatriation should count as a war crime.
