We should then have no immigration until the current legal immigrants are assimilated. We must give priority to workers and families already living in the United States. I worked with immigrants in the last amnesty, and the life stories I encountered still touch my heart. My ancestors came from Poland and the Soviet Union, my wife's from Ireland, the Portuguese Azores and Hawaii. Given Igou's profound self-righteousness, I can only assume that her ancestors are Native American.
Immigrants are people, mostly poor, with families and needs.
Consider how rents and housing costs have risen. Consider educational decline because high numbers of public school students have immigrant parents. Consider extra time in traffic gridlock, in medical waiting rooms, continual degradation of the environment and quality of life. Consider the billions of dollars needed for new highways and schools as each newcomer claims a share of scarce infrastructure. Congress must reduce 1 million legal immigrants yearly to 200,000 and halt illegal immigration.