re: #443 Feline Fearless Leader

The whole issue is a lot more complicated than that. We have methods for legal immigration - convoluted, messy, abused, and in need of overhaul.

We also have an existing large number of illegal immigrants in the country who are here working, and with the continuing influx varying with domestic and foreign economic and political conditions. And the laws regarding how they are handled are also essentially broken in a number of ways and seriously in need of an overhaul. And the solution has to deal with the existing problem and also look forward towards preventing or minimizing the problem in the future.

I get the complexity of fixing the situation. My issue is more with the broad philosophical stance of: “we shouldn’t let these people settle here”.

I mean, I get where it comes from, but it certainly isn’t compatible with any kind of “originalist” interpretation of what makes the USA its own thing, as opposed to (say) monarchical Europe.