The conservatives whine about immigrants coming to America, but they don't realize that in the long run, immigrants greatly improve the U.S. economy. Poor people newly arriving in wealthy countries tend to work hard. What they lack in job skills, they make up in diligence. In the 19th century, immigration powered the American economy, making it the fastest growing in the world. For over 100 years, open immigration policies benefited the world and America.
People expect overloaded welfare agencies.
But to improve the welfare of poor people, immigrant or not, we should abolish government welfare programs. Or, we could, as a condition of immigration, make it so resident aliens are not entitled to receive welfare. On the other side, liberals expect the government, with its storm troopers in the EPA, the U.S. Forest Service, the FBI, the CIA, the post office, the ATF, the DEA, on and on they expect those bureaucrats to protect the environment. The worst enemies the environment has ever seen. Using taxpayer money, the Forest Service has constructed 343,000 miles of roads on our national forests that's 8 times the entire mileage of the U.S. interstate highway system.