We could have as many as 30 million illegal immigrants in America. The solution to this problem seems complicated, but it is straightforward.
You start with the ones that have broken our laws since arriving here. Any act of violence, selling drugs, human trafficking, any sex crime, child abuse, or drunk driving.
Then you move to the ones who are not self-supporting, able-bodied, and refuse to work.
The self-supporting and law-abiding people should be given a path to citizenship. There are many ways this could be worked out, but it never happens, because we know that the Democrats and Republicans like to use these people as political footballs. When either party has held all three branches of government, no solution for this problem is ever voted on. There’s your clue.
These people are human beings and deserve better than they have been treated. Do not trust or support either party until they come up with a reasonable solution, and do not let yourself be a fan of either party until one comes up with a solution.
This has been on my mind for decades, and I thank you for reading and commenting.
I assume that because they are "illegal" they have jumped the gun on those slowly waiting for their turn after applying.
If you are looking for fairness then the gun jumpers should not be encouraged.
And such people encourage those profiteering from helping illegals.
However I do not like in the US so it is not my business really.
Here in NZ a drain on the economy is new immigrants being able to bring in their aged parents easily and thus clogging up the public health service and the pension fund and any other tax paid services which the new comers have not contributed to.
And they don't speak English so don't participate in society.
Well -articulated.
I had to apply for citenship via legal terms in the gulag/ country I currently reside in.
There needs to be one rule for all. Nuff said. .