Obama Fought The Law..

[*michaelsean*]

(05-27-2015, 02:00 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Honestly, I can completely understand being bugged by this. But the problem is how difficult it is to take care of the situation with the budget situation. All of ICE consists of 0.15% of the federal budget, about 9% of the total DHS budget. Of course, they are also customs enforcement, not just immigration. Considering the borders are a part of our defense of this country it is interesting to think about that in comparison to the 14-17% (depending on figures used) that the DoD gets of the federal budget.

If we really want to handle the immigration problem it will cost money, money they just aren't putting into the department and the agency.

That goes back to SSF's contention that nobody wants to fix it. Until you can stop the flow across the border, nothing else matters. If someone told me that we could make every illegal here into a legal resident, (no citizenship if you came here as an adult) and also assure me that statistically speaking we would have no more people coming in illegally, I'd jump all over it.

I'd also be for making the immigration system faster and easier so people aren't waiting years to come here, and I'd fast track the citizenship any legal immigrant who joins the military.