Reply #12: The legal/illegal issue is meaningless [View All]

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People who use it are only doing so strategically. Question them further, and you find they are against legal immigrants too.

We have many illegal immigrants because we have laws that prevent people who want to come and work from coming but allow in long lost relatives of people who have been here for many years. They are dysfunctional and need to be amended. The brother of a naturalized citizen can arrive legally at the age of 55 (what he'll probably be after the running of the quots) to live in any state, to be "reunited" with his US citizen brother, one can live in Montana and the other in Georgia. We take 65,000 such persons each year, legally.

But people who come to work in low paying jobs can't possibly come legally, yet they are young and willing to work in harder, lower paying jobs to work their way up.

We let the quotas applicable to employment based immigrants (proven to be needed by a long and complex Department of Labor procedure) fill up - we actually have limits on people proven to be needed in the economy - we'd rather damage economic growth than admit one foreigner over the quota level.