Immigration
We have thousands of miles of unprotected boarders. Barring a massive militarization of our borders we are not going to stop illegals from getting in.
It is mostly small businesses and agriculture that employee illegals in the US, and it is politically stupid to start arresting farmer John for hiring some help to get the crop in.
Current forms of ID are too easy to forge and you cannot easily hold companies responsible for hiring illegals if they have forged ID.
As I’ve said before the only rational response to illegal immigration is a national ID card. Backed up by hefty fines, you have to have an ID to get a job, rent an apartment, get a drivers license, etc. it will be impossible to live an illegal life. This does cause me some concern about maybe giving the government a little too much power, but I believe our country can strike a livable balance.
We agree on the illegal issues, I don’t want them, but we are going to have them unless we have a national ID.
What needs to be addressed is the underlying nativist arguments threaded throughout your posts, your concern that the current large wave of immigrants is regrettably altering the fabric of the
I concede that this wave of immigrants is altering the fabric of the
It all comes down to the fact that I am not really a cultural conservative. I believe the strength of the
We change a lot.
I am not afraid of new influences. We will absorb those that are beneficial and get rid of those that aren’t. We didn’t turn into a new
Our economy obviously needs this labor to compete in the world, and native Americans aren’t having enough kids to grow the population so we can keep the SS/Medicare Ponzi scheme teetering on the brink of disaster. I don’t see us fixing SS AND Medicare any time soon so keep em coming. I would prefer legally but whatever the free market will bear. The odds of a terrorist killing me or a loved one by sneaking across the border (vs. getting a student visa and living the high life before smashing a plane into a building) is smaller than the inevitable economically ruinous tax increases needed to cash-out of the whole scheme if there aren’t a whole lot more taxpayers.
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