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Originally Posted by Eric5273
I think most people fail to realize that most illegal immigrants do not get into the US by sneaking across the border. They come in legally, but then overstay. Most come as tourists who are visiting, and there is really no effective way to deal with this.
Should a Mexican family not be allowed to go on vacation to the United States the same way Americans visit Mexico on vacation? What about people from other countries? Are we going to shut down the entire tourism industry in the US to foreignors? Only to people from certain countries?
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I'm not sure that "most" illegal immigrants are overstays, but certainly a lot of them are. The "sneaking accross the border" flavor of illegal immigration is certainly a problem that has to be addressed, but so many people think that "illegal immigrant" = "mexican national who snuck into the U.S." and that's simply not what it means. In addition, a pretty big part of the problem is created by the laws themselves and how they're implemented (as demonstrated in my previous post). Spending time and $ trying to kick "illegals" out without addressing why and how they got here in the first place is pretty dumb imho.
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