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Originally Posted by ithos
You can not have a functioning legal immigration system with wide open borders.
This country has had a long and very successful history of setting immigration policies to match employment needs. It resulted in decades of rising standard of living and creating the greatest industrial power in the world. We won WW2 primarily because of our ability to produce armaments.
In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size.
War Production | The War | Ken Burns | PBS
And we did that with LEGAL immigration.
Considering that we have a massive welfare state that offers free education, medical care, and so much more, the de facto policy of today that all 8 billion people in the world have a implicit right to come our country with virtually no screening is INSANE! |
It is evident that the only “immigrants” who have the right are those coming across the southern border. Those pending real immigrants , the ones being mistreated are those from other countries who applied for legal immigration by applying at a US embassy. They are the ones being mistreated as they are waiting years to legally enter the country. As we all know, if you arrive on an international flight or ship from a foreign country, try getting past US Customs at port of entry without the proper legal documents. You can’t.