And we do? Just about everybody living here is from other places. We kind of killed off most of the natives by the 20th century. But if you were born in US airspace or on US soil you are by all rights a US citizen by means of your birth place.
1. We did not 'kill off most of the natives.' The worst population damage native americans suffered was due to diseases, and despite some modern revisionists claiming otherwise, there was no intentional campaign to do that, it was the same kind of results as what happened to Europeans who tried to travel deep into Africa before medical science advanced enough to deal with the diseases found there.
2. Being born on US soil does not mean that you will be raised with the values and culture that have historically defined America. Sadly, in this day that is true whether you're born here because of birth tourism or your parents are citizens, but whatever way you want to deal with this issue, it
is a very real issue.
This is more a matter of should people go to a nation that is better for their child and have a child there vs here when they have no hope of a better life. Keep in mind it's their child that would be a citizen of the United States. It is also a matter of how broken our immigration system that doing this is seen as the only way to ensure their child has at least a hope for a better life.
I agree that it sucks that people who this but maybe if we do more to get the people in and less trying to keep them out we wouldn't have this happen so much. If people are so willing to become citizens we should do all we can to get them in lawfully.
No. Just because a non-citizen wants their child to grow up in the US, does not mean they have a right to do that.
I will agree that our immigration system is broken, but we have
zero obligation legal
or moral to let hordes of people enter our nation willy-nilly because it's the most prosperous nation on Earth. If they want to, for example, spend 5-10 years in the military to earn citizenship, I respect that. If they're willing to wait patiently for legal resident admittance, and we have that throttled to a reasonable pace, I respect that.
I'm even amenable to a
reasonable number of refugees from serious life-threatening tyranny in for no other reasons than that they're refugees. So long as it is a
reasonable number.
'I want in because your nation has more money' is not a justifiable reason. Especially given that people's refusal to try to make their own nation a better place (in a way that would actually work) is a key part of why so many nations are messed up in the first place.
America is not a 'land of immigrants' despite what Lefty lies proclaim, or what that stupid poem says on the Statue of Liberty implies.
The key part of the poem that so often gets overlooked is 'yearning to breathe free.'
If they're here because they yearn for more money, for higher social status, for a chance to just expand their business? We'll take them into consideration.
If they're here for free hand-outs, we should bar the door.
But if they're here because they want to
live free? Then they have some of the essence of what it means to be American, and we can see about bringing them in and teaching them the rest of what that means.
It's not a stupid poem, but it is often an abused one.
What we need to be doing isn't making it easier par say but make it take less time. Hire more workers or something. We have people willing to be here lawfully. Let us help them become lawful citizens.
This is a piece of leftist propaganda. Walls deter crossings, actually patrolling the border deters crossings, actually kicking out border jumpers deters crossings, I could go on.
Will it stop
everybody? No.
But that does not mean it will stop
nobody, and the propagandists who push the false equivalence know that.
Here's some references on deterring border crossings:
The Hungarian border fence has been a remarkable success, according to new figures made public by Viktor Orban's homeland security chief this week.
www.breitbart.com
Yes, I do know some people who would like to see us be that nuts with our southern border. I think they are utterly out of their minds. We will always have people coming here for a better life. If they are going to come I say lets make it work as best it can.
I for one would look for people who know things. God knows we could use people who know where shit is on a map. Half the time I feel like most people wouldn't know what part of the world New Zealand is. Hell, sometimes I see maps that don't even have that but that's another matter.
Post after post, you seem to have nothing but hollow platitudes.
There is a
reason it takes a long time to become a citizen, and that's because (with the sole exception of becoming a citizen through marriage) we want people to live here long enough to actually
become American. Seven to ten years is perfectly reasonable in that regard.
Now, when we're talking about years of delay because of inefficient and incompetent
bureaucracy, that's another matter. Taht does seriously need to be reformed.
On the whole, we already have
tens of millions of immigrants that have not assimilated into our culture. There are areas where Spanish is spoken more often than English. We cannot remain a coherent nation if we do not limit the intake to a rate where people 'melting pot' into the local culture over the generations, we will cease to
exist as a nation. Especially given all the other problems we're having that damage our national cohesion.