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Originally posted by sigma:

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Originally posted by muntus:

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Originally posted by sigma:

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I'm certainly not saying that we should make it "easy" to enter the country legally. But we damn sure need to make it easier and cheaper if we actually want to get a hold on our illegal immigration problem.

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But if we actually want to get a hold on our illegal immigration problem, we damn sure need to make it easier and cheaper.

You see, I tried making that claim sound non-retarded, but I failed. Do you care to explain how making it cheaper and easier will solve our illegal alien immigration problem?

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Ask yourself a very simple question:

Why didn't we have an illegal immigration problem 100 years ago when the population of our nation doubled between 1880 and 1920?

Quite simply because it was easy and cheap to enter the US. Few people want to be here illegally. Most people will take the time to enter legally if it's a viable option as history as shown.

Even as recently as 25 years ago, the illegal immigration problem was practically a non-issue. As the time and money involved in entering legally has grown exponentially, so has the illegal immigration rate in response.

They don't come here illegally because they want to enter illegally. They enter illegally because entering legally isn't an option for them. Not because we don't want them to enter legally, but because the costs and time in doing so, because of mind-boggling amount of bureaucracy created around the process, has made that not a viable option.

The government openly acknowledges that this is a problem. The process is so expensive and so time-consuming and so incredibly difficult to actually go through fully legally, that the government even has a Lottery for Green Cards to entice citizens of under-represented nations to enter the US because few can actually afford to do it the legal way.

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