Enforcing Immigration Laws and Controlling U.S. Borders is Imperative

[debunkgpolitics]

This is what I meant to post

Comments

[htpcl]

I agree there should be control on immigration, i.e. we should know who's entering and how, but there are a few logical inconsistencies that I noticed:

- If immigrants built your country, then there wasn't a country and American culture and society before they started to build it. So how could they have integrated into a culture that didn't exist yet at the time they arrived?

- Correct me if I'm wrong, but illegal immigrants in the US have by far been from Mexico and Latin America in general. Would you care to specify how exactly those are destroying America? I mean, from what I've seen, they've been pretty good at integrating into US society. Just look at this:

[mutive]

I found this over at: http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000845 (not sure how accurate, but guessing it's decent) for the year 2012 of immigrants by country of origin.

1. Mexico 6,720,000
2. El Salvador 690,000
3. Guatemala 560,000
4. Honduras 360,000
5. Philippines 310,000
6. India 260,000
7. Korea 230,000
8. China 210,000
9. Ecuador 170,000
10. Vietnam 160,000

Most are, indeed, from Latin America, but the Philippines, India, Korea, China and Vietnam (aka Asian and SE Asian) countries also rank.

[htpcl]

And how are they destroying h'America, again? Are they even failing to integrate? This narrative simply does not compute.

[mutive]

Didn't say they were, just citing statistics.

[luvdovz]

Why, the private jail system doesn't seem to mind getting a few million new cheap workers in their ranks. In fact they insist for it.

(Btw what's the difference between a prison and jail?)

[debunkgpolitics]

The differences between prison and jail are the duration of confinement, governance, and availability of treatment services. Prisons are for long-term confinement. Jails are for confinement of up to one year. State or federal governments operate prisons. Jails are operated by the county sheriff department. Finally, prisons are more likely to have treatment services, as inmates are expected for at least one year. Source: http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2012/12/whats-the-difference-between-jail-and-prison.html

[garote]

Seems like a pretty hard life

[johnny9fingers]

This is not a public emergency. It is a mental disorder.

Yep.

One fostered and promoted by a few media outlets. Rebuttals don't count when they are ignored or cause cognitive dissonance.

[mikeyxw]

"Over the last eight years, immigrants seeking to destroy America penetrated U.S. borders

[garote]

Yeah well it serves them right for getting onto our land. Rounding them up seemed to work OK when we found "indians" there. Don't see why it can't work again, ayup. (Spits chaw into coffee can.)

[mikeyxw]

Don'cha know, going somewhere, killing the folks who live there, and taking over the land is no longer acceptable. Those who won the last round of killing folks and taking over the land say so.