These immigrants are not eligible for most federal benefits and very few state benefits (especially in Arizona, which is particularly hostile to undocumented immigrants) while contributing to the economy in both the labor they provide, and income and sales taxes they pay. Primary education is a general benefit that has long been recognized as an advantage to society as a whole in that it provides an educated labor base. And those “kids that the illegals brought with them” are likely going to be the people taking care of you in your dotage, so you just might want them to be literate and educable.
Happily, Tempe Jeff made it for me: The people who want a border wall are the ones who are Greatly Concerned about those brown people coming up here and grabbing welfare money.
Has “The Wall” always meant filling in all the non-walled parts of the southern border?
Does anyone credible suggest that any of the existing wall be torn down? Would that mean then, that generally most believe we have just enough wall right now?
I don’t know that the television networks care about credible arguments as much as sensationalism, but I think there are places we could lose the barriers.
foolsguinea asked who the base is for all this Wall stuff and anti-immigrant hubbub. There was always some support for racism and hatred toward foreign people, but there was a tremendous growth in the number and strength of hate groups when we finally elected a brown president (see link below). At the same time, a flock of opinion-benders became more popular, some of them on Fox News Channel. The people who hate and fear immigrants build those emotions on a foundation of misinformation and disinformation.