Illegal Immigration

Government has created the illegal immigration problem in America by creating unneeded barriers to citizenship and providing taxpayer funded entitlement programs and benefits to illegal immigrants. Now recent legislation in Arizona sees government once again trying to resolve problems created by government. Rounding up all the illegals and sending them home is a waste of taxpayer money, and will simply create another "War on ______" of the same ilk as the failed wars on drugs, poverty, and terror. Pouring tax dollars into border fences and incarceration of illegals aren't valid answers, either. People can cut through, dig under, or climb over fences. Laws are already on the books that include jail time and monetary fines for illegal entry into our borders, and they haven't stemmed the tide to this point. Are more laws really going to do any good at all?

Instead of attacking the symptoms we should attack the root of the disease. We should remove incentives to illegal immigration by making taxpayer funded entitlements unavailable to illegals. Illegals should not be entitled to taxpayer assistance, period. We should provide simultaneous incentives for legal immigration by reducing barriers to entry and re-starting programs similar to the Bracero Program. America should welcome immigrants. After all, we ALL are at least descendants of immigrants. However, American citizens should not be on the hook for financing the migration of individuals accross our borders.