According to this source, the United States of America accepts more immigrants then most other major countries put together. By the way, this not including the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. as of July 2010.
America started out as, and has always been a nation of immigrants. Since the beginning, millions of people have come here in the hopes of freedom and liberty and have heavily contributed to our country's rich culture, economy and spirit.
The problem is that our current immigration system has been broken for far too long. The United States of America is literally hemorrhaging our economic future over this Crisis. America is in dire need of comprehensive immigration reform. For the sake of our economic future, America simply cannot continue to allow people to enter the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked.
Here's the FIX!
We need to recall our troops from our the other 75+ foreign countries they inhabit and use these reclaimed resources to secure our borders and other ports of entry with additional personnel, real-time intelligence, infrastructure, and technology. NO, We do NOT need more Federal Law Enforcement Officers or another duplicate Federal "Security" department. We can get it done with these newly reclaimed military resources and effectively shut down large-scale human smuggling organizations. We also need to take reasonable steps to reduce incentives to come to the United States illegally (like minimizing/eliminating Federally subsidized entitlement programs ), while preserving our Citizens individual liberties and freedoms.
ONLY AFTER these measures are taken and the "bleeding" has stopped, we should turn our attention to the millions living here illegally and require them to come out of the shadows and get right with the law. They should do so within a specific time-frame or face abbreviated deportation when discovered.
Even Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt expressed a solid view on immigrants during a public at a meeting on January 5, 1919 (he actually died the next day). He said:
We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin....... But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American.
If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
