I understand your arguments. I'm not discounting them. I am saying I don't agree with them. It sounds dangerously like when I was just out of college and I didn't understand why something in the company was done that way and I would get a response like, "Because that's the way it's always been done."

Folks in Tuvalu are going to lose the entirety of their geographical boundary to the sea.

I don't see why people should be kicked out of a country because they were born in another country. The whole concept of "illegal immigrant" just seems so ... medieval. Someone isn't allowed to live and work in a land because they were born across an imaginary line in the sand?

I don't get it

>I don't see why people should be kicked out of a country because they were born in another country

One good way to "get it" is to go try stay in their country, without following their due process to become a citizen, and see what happens.

A similar good way, is to go live in different countries for a while (try Syria too), and see what ideas some people have about running their countries, and consider whether you'd like people with such ideas to be a sizable minority or even majority in your country.