Unless you've gone through the immigration process yourself, you have no idea how broken and frustrating it is. The truth is that people are spending lifetimes in line when they could bypass the legal process and shorten the time needed to become legal here by 5-10 years. And let's not forget that the US tends to be trigger happy abroad and doesn't really like dealing with the displaced populations of the conflicts they're involved in. That's only speaking of those who are coming in, and that's not really what immigration reform is about at the moment. DACA, that Trump wants to eliminate, deals with kids no older than 8 yo (I believe) who were brought and raised here by their parents under the assumption that they were legal residents, until they reach adulthood and realize that they don't have a status. That is punishing kids for their parents' crime.
Want to solve the backlog issue at homeland security and reduce the incentive to cheat the immigration process? Hire more immigration judges for a start. But that's not what Trump plans to do, as he wants to freeze the hiring of federal employees in his first 100 days.
You guys are ****** in so many ways it's not even funny. Those who put him in there are going to be the first to drag him out of the WH.
Underlined for truth, its easy to say things like "why don't they just take the legal path"- but it's very costly, time-consuming, and a very long process to become a citizen- and thats even if you have the resources to do so. Lets not forget that a lot of the people here, of all colors/ethnicity/backgrounds have gotten here in many different ways
So we should have forgiveness for people that use counterfeit and stolen documents and identies because we dont know what their life is like in their country?
Tell me, do we have forgiveness for these cats that do bank, credit card scams because they "came from the gutter" and didnt follow the right path?
No one is forcing them to come here. They are citizens of their own country. Follow the damn rules if you want come here LEGALLY. There are plenty of ways people at a disadvantage can live here, political asylum, refugee, victims of traffickers, snitches, victims of domestic abuse.
You want to overload your system and open the borders like various countries in Europe did? Then good luck! You see how that went with all the terrorist attacks and streets being filled with refugees...