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There is a vast canyon between legal and illegal. I support the illegal getting everything we can throw at them.
However, there is nothing wrong with a work visa program that allows only the worker (not his family) to come for six months and then go home. I do not believe we should pay social security taxes on these people because it allows them to tap into our social security system.

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 6:47 am By: Hood Richardson

Will, that is the doctrine of globalism, which is the big totalitarian threat of the 21st century. Its big advocate is the World Economic Forum at Davos with their totalitarian "Great Reset". Fortunately, a wave of nationalism is sweeping the world to reject that totalitarian nonsense and globalism is in retreat.

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 7:18 am By: borderhawk

Here is what is actually obvious. There is a correct and proper path to immigration for honest people in foreign countries. It involves filing a very detailed application while still living abroad, paying some substantial fees, having a medical exam by a physician designated by the American government, doing a very thorough background check including a detailed criminal record check, providing an affidavit of support from an American sponsor, and going through a set of interviews before the prospective immigrant is given permission to travel to the US. Even then, many countries may have a lot fewer slots available than people who want to immigrate to America. It may involve applying multiple times. Then after arriving, there are other interviews and paperwork that are necessary. It takes a lot of time and money, but honest people go through that process, not try to break in line in front of those who are doing it the right way. It is the honest immigrants who were screwed the most by Biden's open borders for the scoflaws.

It is immoral to give those who break our immigration laws a preference over those who do it the right way, but that is exactly what the Biden open borders policies have been doing. I know a number of immigrants who went through the process to immigrate to America correctly, and I know they get steamed to see the Biden regime allowing the illegal aliens to, in essence, break into line in front of those doing it the right way.

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 8:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

One good reason why Americans and Europeans want to rid themselves of the curse of illegal immigration is spelled C-R-I-M-E. Here are some examples:
www.beaufortcountynow.com
That is a pretty lengthy list of illegal alien crime on both sides of the Atlantic

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 3:25 pm By: Rino Hunter

There is a term for those who want "to share in the prosperity of America" with lawbreakers who are illegally in our country. That term is SOCIALIST.

The influx of illegal aliens has contributed a lot to depressing the wages of our own citizens and driving up the housing costs of our own citizens. That has happened in all western countries where the illegal alien moochers have flooded in.

Any honest foreigner would apply to legally immigrate, not sneak across our border. Those Biden let in have included foreigners on the terrorist watch list and also members of multiple violent criminal gangs like MS13 and Tren de Aragua. A rise in illegal immigration in any western country is quickly followed by a rise in crime.

Read the polls, Bill Lee. Americans do not want these moochers in our country.

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 1:50 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I am surprised to see a defense of Biden's awful open borders policies presented on the BO. Legal immigrants, the only ones lawfully defined as "immigrants" have to go through extensive vetting and medical testing in their home countries before they are approved to come to America. There are limited slots and in some countries they are difficult to get. These are the TRUE immigrants, in the mold of those who built America, not the illegal aliens who thumb their noses at our immigration laws and take it upon themselves to illegally crash our borders. These are different groups which should be treasted differently.

A legal immigrant has to have an American sponsor to sign an affidavit of support to provide the needs of the immigrant if he or she is unable to do so for themselves. An illegal alien, on the other hand is a freeloader who leans on the American taxpayer to subsidize him or her.

Freeloading illegal aliens cost Americans in a lot of ways other than just through taxes. Our medical costs have skyrocketed due to illegal alien freeloaders who do not pay their bills, and the hospital losses are pushed onto paying patients. That jacks up our medical bills and our health insurance premiums.

Germany is a good example of the enormous cost of these illegal alien migrants, Illegal alien "asylum seekers" now account for 63% of German welfare spending. And remember when FEMA had no funds for hurricane relief last year? The Biden regime had spent that FEMA money on illegal aliens and that is why it was not there for hurricane relief.

What part of "illegal" do you not understand, Bill Lee?

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By: borderhawk

What poppycock. America is NOT the world's welfare state and should not try to be. Did this post get misdirected from the "Daily Worker"? Lee does not seem to grasp that "immigrant" is clearly defined in federal law as only applying to those who apply properly to come to America, are vetted and approved before they arrive. The term does NOT apply to those who arrogantly take the law into their own hands and sneak into the country. The correct definition of those in federal law is "ILLEGAL ALIEN". These lawbreakers need to be rounded up and send home. If we get more immigrants, there is a long waiting list of those honest and honorable applicants who are trying to do it the right way. It is immoral to let the linejumpers in ahead of them. The linejumpers need a quick deportation.

Oh, and "asylum" is mostly a fraud. People claim it when they know they are not entitled to it to get a foot in the door. That fraud needs to be stopped.

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 11:22 am By: John Steed