While it's illegal, you have to sympathize with the liberals who want them in. After all, it is sort of immoral to throw out people who simply come to America for a better life. Of course they bring crime, that's what poverty does - but America already had a lot.

From now on, imo, the border should be tightened but those immigrants with CLEAN records should not be deported back to Mexico.

Because the government has better things to do, like listening to phone calls and arresting streamers.

Well in some ways these large immigration movements can be beneficial. Take Germany for example, their Dependency Ratio was starting to lean towards the elderly, and if the trend continued they'd fall into Crisis like Japan, too many old people and not enough young. They'd be hitting a ZPG point, where more people are dying as elderly people then the fewer young people can have children. So the question really has much more of an implication then that. And in speaking in terms of America.. To boot the refugee's out would hurt us financially, no doubt about it, and to keep them out using strict borders would also cost more money than it's worth. I say we open doors again and let the cheap-labor workforce back in. It'd certainly help bring transnational corporations back, as they see the addition of cheap labor in America as a reason to come back, putting their manufacturing back by the customer base (The products usually bulk-gaining, so having them near the market would decrease transportation costs). This would also in a way increase education rates among the generally upper and middle class, as jobs start to pay less because of a workforce of increased size higher-paying jobs that require an education become more and more coveted. Inflation may also become better this way, this less money in the pockets of the average factory worker, it could result in companies scaling down prices to widen the market, the lowering prices and reduction of money in circulation would increase the value of the dollar per-say.