(06-28-2018, 06:54 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(06-28-2018, 04:58 PM)mikesez Wrote: I agree. It is important to come legally and if you qualify for refugee status, that is a form of legal immigration.
The President is also trying to reduce *legal* immigration, however.  It would seem we, you and I, care more about being a nation where laws are both realistic and enforced, while the President just flat doesn't like immigrants.

As long as illegal immigration continues, legal immigration should lessen. You can't maintain a constant flow of legal and illegal immigrants. 

This is part of the problem with illegal immigration.

Illegal immigration has basically stopped. The rate of new people coming in illegally is about the same as the rate of illegal immigrants leaving. Most of the illegal immigrants here now arrived more than 10 years ago. If we do even more to encourage illegal immigrants to leave, like tighten up the e-verify system, we will need more legal immigrants to replace them in the workforce.

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