Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2
letting in uneducated people to burden the system is just wrong.
Uneducated folks are destined to be a burden on the system? Bit harsh there JP.
No doubt there are immigrants who come to the US to trick the system but they are a minority. Even so, benefits too easily obtained should be discontinued. This goes for native born folks who trick the system as well.

I remember the outrage, prediction of dire consequences and spiraling welfare cost from anti immigration folks when many thousands of Vietnamese boat people landed on our shores in the 70s. Those uneducated Vietnamese worked hard and took advantage of what the US had to offer. The children of the uneducated VN immigrants are doing quite well and certainly valued contributors to the US.

I hold strong the idea immigration is one of the US's great strenghts. Reform is needed but this still remains something special to me and so many worldwide.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"