Not only illegal aliens, around 2 million employment based visa holders, mostly from Asia, who have been living here legally and paying taxes since decades but still waiting for their green cards due to backlog. The estimated wait time for them is 50-100 years, which is a joke and they will die waiting. The asylum seekers and others get priority over them, such is the broken immigration system.As @mfennell noted above, immigration is the growth solution to the dwindling population and a national debt. As long as they pay more in taxes/benefits than they take it removes the overall burden. And as he noted there's plenty of illegal aliens uses fake SS #s that actually pay taxes and into SS without a payback. So while I'd prefer we didn't spend like crazy, immigration actually helps there.
@mfennell You can be both an illegal alien and an asylum seeker. Basically due to the way asylum works nearly all of the people crossing the boarder now claim asylum, correct or not. Many will then will not show up for the court dates and disappear. Even if the asylum status would be correct it's not very easy to actually prove you should be an asylum seeker unless you have things like physical scars from torture.
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