Originally Posted by RichieLion

Understandable feeling, but the United States is not under obligation to accept everyone running over our border in search of "milk and honey" just because they are unhappy at home.

By that measure, why don't you leave your door unlocked so that all who are in worse shape than you can enter your house without your permission and help themselves to the things you have in order to enrich their own miserable lives.

It would be understandable for those destitute people to do so, in the parameter of your post.