01-22-2016, 12:23 AM
(01-22-2016, 12:13 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: People who visit the US on visas are visitors, not immigrants. As far as I understand, they must file certain paperwork declaring their desire to officially immigrate. When these visitors violate the terms of their visa, they become illegal foreign nationals. With the state of affairs in the world right now, we cannot afford to have half a million illegal nationals roaming around, with their whereabouts untracked. It puts the US citizens in danger.
Well, first of all we would have to track 44 million visitors, not just half a million. And that would cost billions of dollars. I think that money would be better spent protecting us from ANY potential attack. The attacks the last few years have proven that we are in danger of terrorism from all sorts of people including American citizens.
We have to be smart about how we use our resources if we want to be safe.
