You saying that as if rest of the world isn't like that.

It's not. And, if it were, that has no bearing on whether we should.

I'm generalizing a bit, but if you think that the rest of the world isn't then you are very naive. You simply haven't seen the world through the glasses of being a poor and powerless person from a third world country.

Sympathy is dead to governments and most businesses. Especially with the nationalist opinion gaining popularity recently, I would expect sympathy for the fellow human if they're from a different country to die down even more.

Yes we want capital and brains to flow in but your comment isn't fair. The US has a history of settling refugees here. We also have a purposefully porous southern border and have normalized illegal immigrants.

> The US has a history of settling refugees here.

Oh please. You don't know your history then.

We also refused Irish during the Potato Famine. This time it was because they weren't "healthy" - aka, no damn Mics.

After a campaign of anti-Irish sentiment, the Italians came here. We have a racial slur for them - fops. They were turned out en masse.

We denied the Jews coming here in '36. Didn't like Jewish - they kill and eat children! (Yes, this is in the US National Holocaust Museum as example of propaganda.)

We denied the Jews again in '46, AFTER knowing the atrocities they suffered in Europe. You know, those damned Jews.

In the 50's, we laid heavily into the Slavic and Baltic countries... Those damned Commies. Oh you were leaving because of humanitarian crisis? LIAR.

That's just a few examples. This whole Muslim ban has been done before with nations, politics, and religion (Irish, Communist/Socialist, Jewish respectively). Most populist "leaders" will garner support by singling one group out and attacking. Just like Hitler did, and following in the footsteps, Trump.

The current government seems to vehemently oppose the idea of normalizing illegal immigrants.

It seems that way. However if we really wanted to deny border crossing we would. It just isn't really a priority. The issue gets a lot of air time but do you think if it really was a national priority it would be so easy to cross?

When I was a kid we used to cross the river into Mexico to go eat (on hunting trips near the border). We'd pay a guy to row us across and then back. It was a well known thing. People from both sides used it to go back and forth all the time.

Guess what, now that guy in a row boat is an official US border patrol checkpoint. LOL

The border is a big joke.

>if we really wanted to deny border crossing we would. It just isn't really a priority.

I doubt it. If you really wanted to deny border crossing, you'd have to allocate so much money to ICE that it would upend the federdal spending budget. It isn't feasible easily. That would make the current administration look stupider that it already is.

Hyperbole

illegal immigrants.

Why is that a bad thing?

Bad or good is just perspective. I'm just saying the parent comment isn't so right anymore.

Its not a perspective, if you say illegal immigration is good then why bother making labels like legal and illegal.

do you understand what you are even saying? There's so many things in play I don't even know if you're serious.

You either support illegal immigration or you don't. Why is that so difficult to understand?

What's difficult to understand is what you are trying to say. I never said if I was for or against illegal immigration. I replied to the parent comment claiming illegal immigration through southern border is purposeful. You are trying to make it out to be about stances.

Good and Bad are definitely subjective. Illegal immigration is good for the illegal immigrant because they have better quality of life. Millions of Americans who voted for Trump seem to think it is bad. So it is definitely about perspective, and the reason we bother to make labels is because we live in a civil society where we follow rules, no matter if some people don't feel it is necessary.

> Illegal immigration is good for the illegal immigrant

What kind of mental gymnastics are you doing. I am asking you, do you support illegal immigration, it's a yes or no question.