Border security is not casual racism. Nobody takes seriously a notion to stop having borders in a nation literally defined by them. While many actions of the current system are reprehensible, the response is reform, or even a clean-sheet design. But loss of sovergnity is not on the table.

Thank you, and well said. It bothers me when I get called a racist and a xenophobe for saying that border security is necessary, but the current admin has taken it too far. It's not black and white! We can't let everyone in. That just doesn't work - some security is necessary. Turning people away for vague reasons or race/country of origin when they otherwise would be let in is a whole other can of worms though.

You might want to learn about the country specific caps and how bills like S.386 were passed in congress buy blocked by Sen. Durbin to keep the "casual racism" going.

This is also the reason why people from India enroll in colleges that have weekend classes in order to maintain their legal status while in-between jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6LGNijSCCc

Should American workers be happy to "simply let people come and work here" when their wages have been stagnant for decades? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

I dunno. We have so many things that are holding down wages right now, including globalization, automation, and changes to tax laws which make it easier for profits to go to capital instead of labor. Do we actually have good evidence that immigration has much of an effect?

Idealistically, it seems we could just let everyone do what they want, and it will all work out. As we're seeing over the last few years, this doesn't work.

Lobby to change the laws to whatever they "should" be, and enforce them. Personally I'm behind whatever Congress decides, but I'm very much not behind lawlessness.