Posted by PigParty

The money is wired over, not brought over by the immigrants themselves... A wall has nothing to do with money transfers. Cutting off money isn't supposed to get rid of illegal immigrants either, nor is building a wall supposed to. Cutting off money transfers is a means to pay for the wall, and the wall is for keeping people out, not getting rid of the illegal immigrants we already have.

I agree it's not practical to round up all the illegal immigrants and move them out, but something needs to be done. We've set a precedent, which is a very dangerous thing. The thing is that illegal immigrant numbers are rising. They will continue to rise forever until something is done. People here illegally (doesn't matter if they're on overstayed visas because that has nothing to do with anything, the point is they're here illegally at that moment) should either be forced to leave (which is an entirely sucky situation considering many are here with family and kids that are citizens), or they need to allow citizenship or legalization for the non-criminal immigrants here, plus make them pay a fine/back taxes or some punishment. Simply letting them stay is setting the precedent that more can come and will be simply legalized eventually. America accepts more immigrants than most other countries because we're built off immigrants, but we need to control how many come in. As I said before, there's always a downside to every solution, but doing nothing is not an option (it is to politicians, though, because they don't want backlash). Every country wants to decide who comes in and how many people come in, it's not a new concept. The problem is American politicians have let the problem get far too big, and now there's no good solution that works.