2) The US was founded open borders. Read the Declaration of Independence. Notice we revolted against the king in part because he restricted free and open immigration.
3) The federal government technically has no power to restrict immigration. Naturalization, sure. But immigration is not among the federal enumerated powers (naturalization is). Restrictions on immigration were explicitly regarded as the business of the individual states for the first century of this country's existence.
4) Everyone knew the feds could do nothing to restrict it. So, when SCOTUS says states have no standing, this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the Founding Fathers said about immigration. The Founders said individual states were the ONLY ones with authority and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT had no standing.
5) That's why there were no federal laws restricting immigration until the 1872 Chinese Exclusion Act. The federal government has no power to restrict gun ownership of any kind, nor has it any power to restrict immigration. Like "gun control" restrictions, immigration restriction are not a Constitutional power given to the federal government.
6) Given our total fertility rate, we economically MUST steal other countries' citizens if we are not to follow Japan, China, Russia and Ukraine down the demographic rat hole. By stealing their citizens via immigration, we shore up our own future and destroy that of the countries the immigrants come from.
7) Roughly half of illegal immigrants arrive by plane and overstay their visas. A wall will have ZERO effect.
8) In order to build a wall, the federal government has to steal millions of acres of private land from American owners. How would you like it if the feds confiscated YOUR house, that had been in your family since before the US started? That's the situation with a lot of the border territory.
9) In order to build a wall, the federal government would have to break treaties with at least a few Indian tribes whose lands extend across the US-Mexican border.
10) We already have a 90-mile shark-infested moat separating America from Cuba. That doesn't stop Cuban immigration. Why do you think a piddling 30-foot wall would stop immigration from Mexico?
11) Immigrants are also coming across the Canadian border. Are we going to turn the US into a jail? Seriously?
12) Yes, you can point to North Korea and China as countries that have walls, mines, border guards and jail terms for illegal immigrants. Are we taking lessons from them now? Seriously?
13) The Republican party was not only founded anti-slavery, but also PRO-IMMIGRANT. Abraham Lincoln actually created a federal Office to Encourage Immigration.
14) Being opposed to immigration is a eugenically-based PROGRESSIVE idea inspired by Darwinian theory. It is not a historically Republican or conservative position.
15) Immigrants are LESS LIKELY to commit crime than American citizens are. Look here at the per capita total crime rate (you have to scroll down a bit to get to that table). As illegal immigration rose through the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, the crime rate in EVERY CATEGORY dropped. In fact, it dropped in half in almost all categories. If illegals are "invading" and if illegals are "violent criminals" then why is the crime rate in every category cut in half?
18) Immigrants are being abused by coyotes and cartels precisely because our immigration policies do not match the vision of America's Founding Fathers.
