Originally Posted by
oladub
100,000 illegal non-citizens have been caught illegally crossing our southern border monthly in recent months. ICE thinks that represents about 54% of attempted illegal boarder crossings. That means that 90,000, or so, are managing to successfully invade our country monthly. In addition, an estimated 40% of illegal non-citizens present came in legally but overstayed their visas. Official guesses are that there are about 11M such illegal non-citizens here. That 11M guess never changes although maybe 90,000 are added monthly. Obama judges won't let us find out with the Census.
You must be instead referring to people with visas who come in through the alternative legal immigration system and excluding other illegal uninsured non-citizens and their children who show up in emergency wards for free health care. It would indeed be more humane to end the program and allow those approved who applied before coming here legally to temporarily stay here. Which Democrats offered that option? The last time they were counted, all 10 Democratic presidential candidates on stage raised their hands in favor of providing free medical care to illegal non-citizens. There are about 7,400,000,000 people in the world who aren't American. It would be even more humane to send U.S. tax dollars to those countries so they could obtain many of the same treatments locally for pennies on the dollar. More could be treated for the same cost. Better yet, ending illegal immigration could free domestic resources no longer available to American citizens. Who knows? Maybe Americans who vote for open border Democrats and Republicans would be happy to dig into their own pockets.