This is a violation of 8 USC 1182, but that is of no concern to Americans engorged with the idea that Uncle Joe will take care of them.

As he passed a bill taking over $5K from every American to hand some of them $1400. To be fair, the bill's name is a lie, not its content - it's a regular budgetary bill.

This disaster was only delayed by not electing Hillary, not prevented, as the public lets itself down again and again.

So glad Mr. Biden doesn't tweet mean things!

I think it's ok to take your own country's needs into account in regards to immigration issues. And it's one thing if there is a famine or a genocide next door, but...

That said I think the US could have a much looser immigration policy, to its benefit, to fill jobs and the like.

"That said I think the US could have a much looser immigration policy, to its benefit, to fill jobs and the like."

Much looser? How do you GET looser than admitting millions without complying with existing US law?

You're being taxed, not these illegals, to deal with supporting them.

Don't forget none of these people are quarantined or tested for a wide variety of diseases.

NicoleK, are you so sure of that? How many people do you think immigrate legally each year?

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/Annual-Number-of-US-Legal-Permanent-Residents

No. No benefit. We already have enough no skill or low skilled citizens who have loose association with English as is. We don't need to import more of the same. Keep in mind, if you don't have a work visa you are not legal to employ. You are also not eligible for welfare, except in California. And yet...they keep coming here. So they're getting something out of the deal.

The ones benefiting are the US Chamber of Commerce - lower wages - and the Democrat Party - more voters.

In case you haven't seen this, emphasis mine:

A Baltimore high school student failed all but three classes over four years and almost graduated near the top half of his class with a 0.13 GPA, according to a local report.

Tiffany France, the mother of the failing student, thought her son would be receiving his diploma from Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in June. However, she was surprised to discover that he is being sent back to the ninth grade to start over.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-student-fails-classes-top-half

That said I think the US could have a much looser immigration policy, to its benefit, to fill jobs and the like. ~ NicoleK at March 12, 2021 4:51 AM

Fill jobs? Our unskilled jobs are rapidly being automated out of existence. The average illegal immigrant is not going to have advanced computer or technical skills.

It's not immigration that's the problem. It's assimilation and integration. We are an industrialized first-world economy. Most of our illegal immigrants come from agrarian third-world economies and don't have the skills to excel in this type of economy. While we do need some unskilled and low-skill laborers, we don't need and cannot support an abundance of them.

Coming through legally requires the person to have some resources in his home country and some ability to deal with paperwork and bureaucracy. Illegal immigration generally requires money and endurance.

Some of those unskilled immigrants will make it here despite the skills, culture, or language gaps. Being willing to work hard with a goal in mind will always pays dividends.

It's hard to hear complaints about border trespassers with all this food in our mouths. Everything from cilantro to McNuggets to strawberries (SoCal locals can tour Oxnard) gets planted, picked, and processed by ESL types. They were even declared essential workers during the pandemic. The race hustlers won't work in the fields.

But we're working on it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tomato+picking+robot&oq=tomato+picking+robot&aqs=chrome..69i57.10083j0j9&client=ms-android-lge-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

P.S. Someone posted about a new law in Sacramento banning casual automotive work, even the tools. Who do you think this is aimed at?

Even with the high tech high skilled areas, there are problems. Some will point out that some innovative places like Google were created by immigrant entrepreneurs. However, looking at the culture and practices at some of these places, are rather un-American. How often Googles changes searches leading to biased answers may tip elections, and Google celebrates that.
There's the assumption that if you come to America you support American ideas or will be assimilated into them. But if numbers of immigrants get too large, for too long the entire society changes.

By looser, I mean legally let in more people. Quarantine them and all that. And then crack down on people hiring illegally and people working illegally. But people shouldn't have to sneak in to begin with.

Immigration is insane. My husband lived in the States 15 years... did a post doc, worked and everything, married me... no Greencard. Which actually worked out for us because here it would be a liability, but had we stayed it was annoying. He would have gotten it eventually, but damn!

By looser, I mean legally let in more people. Quarantine them and all that. And then crack down on people hiring illegally and people working illegally. But people shouldn't have to sneak in to begin with.

Immigration is insane. My husband lived in the States 15 years... did a post doc, worked and everything, married me... no Greencard. Which actually worked out for us because here it would be a liability, but had we stayed it was annoying. He would have gotten it eventually, but damn!

"It's hard to hear complaints about border trespassers with all this food in our mouths. Everything from cilantro to McNuggets to strawberries (SoCal locals can tour Oxnard) gets planted, picked, and processed by ESL types. They were even declared essential workers during the pandemic. The race hustlers won't work in the fields." -- Spiderfall

Chicken or egg on the US rural economy:

Agricultural workers aren't making below minimum wage; they're often making $15/hr or more. I went to a rural high school that was Class B back in the 1960s and was Class D by the time I graduated, which meant that, at the time, it was graduating regularly

The $15/hr minimum wage movement is to try to raise the pay above the value created for jobs that have a number of non-cash perks - like working inside, in air conditioning, and never having to lift more than 25 lbs. It's not really for farm jobs.

I assumed the guidance counselors in the public school were earning commission from out-of-state colleges: their #1 goal was to achieve full indoctrination by the time of graduation that one simply *must* leave and never return. Agricultural work is held in the same low esteem that "working with your hands" is.

I doubt one could ever reverse the need to have a "guest worker program" without ever rebuilding the economies of rural towns again, which will not happen short of complete collapse of the US system and replacement by something else that is forced to be local by political boundaries.

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Graduating less than 90 kids a year, when they were once graduating over 500 a year. That means that there are simply no farm kids to take over the farm, let alone work a farm job. Farms are third, fourth, fifth generation - and then onto the auction block, as no one will run them. You can sell the land - but it is going to be sold and converted to another use - waste storage, windmill locations, and things that involve a single capital infusion and then no real ongoing operation.

EVL, do you know who owns more farmland than anyone in the United States?

CNN is blowing smoke. The new DHS head has stated that the US is making preparations to receive people and help them enter the country.

He'd asked that people wait until that's all ready. But what he effectively conveyed is that the US is expecting a big influx of people and so it's not surprising that some are arriving now to avoid the surge.

The US is going to see a huge migration of people. Potentially in the many millions. Micheal Yon, a journalist, has been in Panama and Columbia documenting the caravans that are forming. There are US immigration staff down there as well trying to advise people and do whatever pre-processing they can.

Biden isn't locking Mexican children up in Trump cages, he's protecting at-risk immigrants in Obama-built safety spaces.

Watch your broadcast TV news for additional corrective guidance.