Immigration

Ok, here's my manifesto (lol) about immigration.

Immigration is a great thing. It's what made this country what it is today. But...

Immigration must be controlled. It is imperative that authorities know who is coming into our country and have the ability to control who and how many people enter our country. It is simply a security issue.

Those people that are currently in our country illegally may have nothing but the purest motives of working to support themselves and their families, but the fact remains that they broke the law. I don't believe they should be punished (unless, of course, they break another law), but they should be identified and, without prejudice with regards to future immigration, deported to their country of origin.

It's not a racial thing. I don't care whether they come from Mexico, Canada, or Timbuktu. They need to get here legally or stay out.

It would also be nice if countries who originate our illegal alien problems could feel some incentives to reduce the rate of illegal immigration. Perhaps foreign aid could be inversely tied to the rate of illegal immigration, or (if we owe the offending country) we could write off a portion of the debt for each illegal alien we process from that country.