In this day and time keeping an open border is suicide. Until we close the border, start enforcing present immigration laws and come up with a transparent plan of numbers, and more importantly, a verification process that WORKS, we're allowing crazies in.
BTW, immigration was suspended from sometime in the 30's (I believe) until 1965. The feel good posters on here that think it's more important not to hurt the feelings of a large population of various sects of a religion(s) that vow to annihilate the US and kill all Christians and Jews is just GD dumb, naive and close to treasonous. It's said you can't beat dumb. The people will choose whether we beat this dumbness via the vote.
The problem with immigration now? The government gives these people whatever they need monetarily. Both sides of my family immigrated here on THEIR $$. We aren't their keepers.Sweet Baby Jesus we have a social system that has zero checks and balances and perpetuates poverty and ignorance for most minorities.
You ask a question with no simple answer that provokes venom between our own citizens. Lastly, you can call me racist or whatever, but these women wearing the burkas with, basically, a mask is bullshit. What will it take to require immigrants to assimilate as an AMERICAN....20, 50, 100, 1000!!! of these women all across the country walking into local stores and blowing themselves up killing untold women, children and men? What will those say that want these open borders? We didn't know? Bull fvcking shit.