We do need a immigration policy..... Do you want to send millions of people back to Central and South America? They are doing jobs that Americans don't want to do,
like most of the work in restaurant and most of the residential construction work including roofing, siding, tile, block work, sheetrock,framing and hardwood flooring.
I do agree with you on the fact that we need people for these jobs - we used to use H2B for that - now we just open the border? I used to run ten commercial landscape crews in the city for property management and that was the way it worked twenty years ago, H2B that is. Those workers, while not citizens were incentivized to pay taxes and would work towards their citizenship. I guess we have Fawked those people now.
We also have a legal way of bringing people in. We are bypassing people on a waiting list for people that jump the boarder. If I tried that at a local restaurant where I need a reservation I am pretty sure that won’t work. Definitely does not work at the DMV either.
The current border policy is not complying with our laws. Why do I need to pay $200 for a passport when we are allowing people to just walk in? Further - if there are so many jobs available for these people why are the cities screaming they cannot handle them? We need to house these people - our tax dollars are covering their hotels rooms in addition to many others things - further they are occupying low income housing which further drives the housing crisis.
I have yet to meet anyone that favors these policies that has taken immigrants in. Have you? Have your hired any of these people - if you have not - then why? I get the morality thing to help these people out - but I have yet to meet someone that has opened their own doors up. Someone else will take care of it - right?
I pay taxes, these people don’t. Anyway I don’t have to pay taxes anymore because I am pretty sure my tax dollars are covering this nonsense.
Does this mean TSA is going away?
I do agree it is very difficult to send them back, once they are here - they are here. Why not do this legally under the system the way it is setup?
Further - for the jobs you speak of. Local towns know the illegals do not have insurance, pay permits etc. so rather site them they let infractions go as they would be following a ghost once they hit the court system - yet the tax payer that operates in these industries pays the price. Higher insurance, higher license fees and additional scrutiny. We are a country/society of tax payers/citizens but this punishes our own.