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Originally Posted by kane
What Trump and others rarely talk about is the fact that at least half of the people who are here illegally came here legally in the first place. They came into the country with an entrance visa just like someone coming here on a vacation and they just never left. We are going to have to find out a better way to stop this from happening. A wall will just encourage more people to come here legally and not leave or fly to Canada and sneak across that border.
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We have this image that all illegals came into the country by crossing the border illegally on a pack mule. This is not true, and building a fence will not stop this activity. Even if we built a wall, like you said, they will just fly to Canada and then cross that border.
But the reality of this goes much further. People make it out that illegal immigration is the cause of all of our problems, but I don't really agree with that. Illegal immigrants only make up 5% of the labor force of the United States. Also, we seem to think that ilegal immigrants are coming across the border in droves but they really aren't - illegal immigration peaked in 2007 / 2008 and has since fallen.
5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
I am not saying there isn't a problem, there sure is. Illegal immigrants do take American jobs and suck up resources, but it's not the massive problem some people make it out to be.