The wall

I agree with you about the cheap labor.
Which is why I believe that any company that hires illegals should be fined by the govt up to $5000 per day per illegal immigrant working there, and the illegals should also be arrested and deported.

I am slightly concerned that a left leaning govt in DC would use the wall to keep Americans in, the way the East German govt used the wall.

mysteryman841 wrote:

I agree with you about the cheap labor.
Which is why I believe that any company that hires illegals should be fined by the govt up to $5000 per day per illegal immigrant working there, and the illegals should also be arrested and deported.

Doing this would completely negate the need for a wall.

There is a strong economic incentive on both sides; businesses need to hire illegal immigrants, and illegal immigrants find it easy to find jobs. The only logical way is to make it easier for workers to come legally. Punishing American businesses with big fines will drive them out of business (at least in the US).

They have been here for most of their lives, have done nothing to change their immigration status, and now are crying that they might get deported.

I am 100% in favor of LEGAL immigration, but I am 100% opposed to illegal immigration.

I don't know anyone that objects to LEGAL immigration, or guest worker visas.

The problem arises when illegal immigrants cross the border.

I don't know anyone that objects to LEGAL immigration, or guest worker visas.

The "dreamers" are crying because they might get deported, so what!

They have been here for most of their lives, have done nothing to change their immigration status, and now are crying that they might get deported.

talk to the employers who like what they are paying for those illegal migrants (and look at where those businesses are making their political donations)

I don't know anyone that objects to LEGAL immigration

Opposition to legal, as well as illegal, migration is hardening into a bedrock principle of the Republican Party.

With last week's vote in the House of Representatives on hardline immigration legislation from GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, about three-fourths of Republicans in both the House and Senate have voted this year to cut legal immigration by about 40%.

Since 2001, the share of Americans who favor increased legal immigration into the U.S. has risen 22 percentage points (from 10% to 32%), while the share who support a decrease has declined 29 points (from 53% to 24%).

The shift is mostly driven by changing views among Democrats. The share of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents who say legal immigration into the U.S. should be increased has doubled since 2006, from 20% to 40%.

Growing share of Democrats support increased legal immigration into the U.S.Republicans’ views also have changed, though more modestly. The share of Republicans and Republican leaners who say legal immigration should be decreased has fallen 10 percentage points since 2006, from 43% to 33%.

Still, about twice as many Republicans (33%) as Democrats (16%) support cutting legal immigration into the U.S.

The new survey, which was largely conducted before the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border involving immigrant children being separated from their parents, finds deep and persistent partisan divisions in a number of attitudes toward immigrants, as well as widespread misperceptions among the public overall about the share of the immigrant population in the U.S. that is in this country illegally:

Fewer than half of Americans know that most immigrants in the U.S. are here legally. Just 45% of Americans say that most immigrants living in the U.S. are here legally; 35% say most immigrants are in the country illegally, while 6% volunteer that about half are here legally and half illegally and 13% say they don’t know. In 2015, the most recent year for which data are available, lawful immigrants accounted for about three-quarters of the foreign-born population in the United States.