As usual, the conceptions you bring to the issue resonate in harmony with mine. The "devil" is always in the details but if the moral/political conceptions are correct, said details become minor. They are minor within your excellent prescriptions.
All the best Americans I know were born in other countries! They are all unfortunate enough to know the real difference between how every other country views human life and how America does.
The "close the border" faction isn't opposed to immigration in principle. It's opposed to criminal aliens flooding across the border and bringing their pathologies with them. Most people who know something about the legal immigration and citizenship process agree that it's stupid, irrational, and time-consuming, like everything else the USG does. It's possible to deplore the situation at the US southern border and still favor immigration and citizenship for decent people, by which I mean those who aren't dues-paying members of MS-13 or a tong.
But you will not win friends and influence even good-willed people by ideating a US policy of "open borders" under any conditions, and especially not while governments--at whatever level--keep pouring more slop into the welfare state trough, handing out phone cards, hotel stays, and voter registration cards to everyone who wades the Rio Grande. No one's going to support immigration when every entrant represents another mouth to feed or contributes to crime spikes. End the welfare state and then we can talk about a rational, liberal immigration policy that still includes a border secure from criminal threats.
Good plan! The hardest part will be "winding down" the welfare state as we "wind up" the assimilation program.
As usual, the conceptions you bring to the issue resonate in harmony with mine. The "devil" is always in the details but if the moral/political conceptions are correct, said details become minor. They are minor within your excellent prescriptions.
Good topic for discussion at our next gatering!
All the best Americans I know were born in other countries! They are all unfortunate enough to know the real difference between how every other country views human life and how America does.
The "close the border" faction isn't opposed to immigration in principle. It's opposed to criminal aliens flooding across the border and bringing their pathologies with them. Most people who know something about the legal immigration and citizenship process agree that it's stupid, irrational, and time-consuming, like everything else the USG does. It's possible to deplore the situation at the US southern border and still favor immigration and citizenship for decent people, by which I mean those who aren't dues-paying members of MS-13 or a tong.
But you will not win friends and influence even good-willed people by ideating a US policy of "open borders" under any conditions, and especially not while governments--at whatever level--keep pouring more slop into the welfare state trough, handing out phone cards, hotel stays, and voter registration cards to everyone who wades the Rio Grande. No one's going to support immigration when every entrant represents another mouth to feed or contributes to crime spikes. End the welfare state and then we can talk about a rational, liberal immigration policy that still includes a border secure from criminal threats.