Coupled with reasonable immigration for the peaceful, we must maintain a vigorous national defense against our enemies.
Terrorists and criminals who attempt to enter the US via a Customs and Immigration station should be denied entry and, where applicable, arrested and detained or extradited.
Terrorists and criminals who attempt to enter the US via other points along its 95,000 miles of border and coastline should be treated as what they are: invaders against whom we must respond. As long as our defense forces restrain themselves to reasonable rules of engagement, doing this will much better guarantee our security with little risk of dire consequences to the occasional innocent refugees.
We must reject the foreign-adventurist concept of national defense that keeps American troops overseas covering for nationalist and corporate meddling in the affairs of other nations. A better national defense policy would be one which, lacking any real attack which might require retaliation elsewhere, focuses on the logical area: the nation's borders.
We must work to either replace or reclassify the Border Patrol and treat border issues as what they are: national defense issues coming under the mission and scope of our defense forces. In an age where the equivalent of a large invasion force can be packed into a suitcase-sized box containing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, no lesser response will do.
Immigration and border security are two separate issues.
When immigration and border security are jumbled together, the result is both deadly to peaceful immigrants and subversive of the security of the United States.
By any reasonable measure, properly-regulated immigration is not just beneficial to the American economy but indispensable to the goal of a nation of freedom and opportunity. This nation was built on immigration. Allowing peaceful people to enter our country appropriately is not just an option. It's a benchmark by which we measure whether or not we're living up to the American ideal. Coupled with a benign foreign policy, it is what makes America the beacon of Liberty in what was once and would be again an otherwise dark world for most people.
This does not mean, however, that the national defense must be sacrificed to some naive conception of "open borders."
The privilege of entering the United States is not the right to invade the United States in contest with its legitimate interest in securing itself against those who would do it harm.
Peaceful immigrants should be allowed to enter the US at conveniently located Customs and Immigration stations, subject only to brief vetting to ensure that they are not terrorists or criminals, and reasonable consideration of the nation's ability to assimilate them. Unreasonable restrictions and quotas should not leave potential productive citizens with no options other than to remain destitute elsewhere or to place their lives at risk by attempting to cross the border at remote and dangerous locations; this, often under the guidance of ruthless "coyotes" who are as likely to leave them to die as to get them safely across, and then only to lead embarrassingly criminal lives of fear of detection, detention and deportation.
Not only is the current border policy not working, it is making national defense a more difficult task. Foreign nationals crossing into the US illegally, because they were denied legal entry without good reason, provide cover, by their sheer numbers, for terrorists and criminals. The black market in smuggling people constitutes a vector for also bringing the nation's enemies into our homeland.
The welfare state needs to be eliminated whether immigration is an issue or not.
We should not have to worry about foreigners invading us just so they can eat out our substance on the dole. The possibility of "safety net" abuse is not a good excuse for excluding immigrants. The so-called safety net is not a solution for the plight of poor immigrants, it is one of the worst enticements to illegal trespass by foreign nationals.
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