What should our border/migrant stance be?

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30. It's more complicated than we think

The US does need immigrants to fill jobs not attractive to Americans, like working in meat packing plants and farm work. These are horrible, low-paid jobs, but if they give an immigrant a first step on the ladder to citizenship, it's a win-win.

Prior labor immigrant waves were generally working age adults who filled labor needs, sent money to families back home, or saved to be able to afford to bring them to the US later. It didn't make sense to try to come with their whole families, or to come en masse. We do not have adequate affordable housing, schools, teachers, healthcare, to meet the needs of millions of new families trying to join the US. We can't take care of our own.

There's one other issue that is not being discussed. Our geopolitical enemies have long sought to use migrant surges to destabilize western democracies. Russia helped decimate Syria, triggering an immigration crisis in Germany. Russia is trying to trigger immigrant surges into Finland, and may well be providing disinformation to immigrants about coming to America.

Some one, or some entities are telling millions of Venezuelans that if they show up at America's front door with their whole families, that they will receive free education, healthcare. childcare, food and housing. There is no country in the world where this is realistic.

Who is telling them that America is going to take care of them and their families? Probably the same people charging them to come here. We need to figure that part out and put a stop to it.