[tartoran]

Not only that but OP makes a vague statement and doesn’t know the details of this case. I bet OP is a frantic Trump supporter and is blind to any criticism of Trump.

Let’s remind him:

The USA is built on immigrants and that’s what made this country successful in the first place. Nearly everyone in this country is an immigrant or a direct descendent of immigrants except for the native Americans who are the only non immigrants in this country.

Second, this country would not survive without the work of immigrants or foreign workers. And if those foreign workers would not have a path to citizenship they would go some other place. I work with brilliant Indian IT workers on various visas for work, and if there is no path to citizenship for them then the incentive to work for the US is very small. All of them use their brains, taxes and spend most of their earnings in the US economy. Imagine what blow to the US Economy would be if they all left to some other place...

In reality it’s not anti-immigration that is a bigger issue than racism and bigotry

[burfog]

The native Americans had numerous little nations. Those nations were mostly destroyed by immigration. There was lots of fighting and death, and a hostile cultural change, and property seizure. Individual immigrants could be brilliant and hard-working and friendly, but then they voted for leaders who did terrible things to the native Americans.

This is not something to repeat.

[Splognosticus]

There's a pretty substantial difference between immigration and conquest. The former in no way requires the latter.

[burfog]

In these cases, no. There is no substantial difference. It's the same situation, with people of an incompatible culture showing up in large numbers and then expecting to control society.

It never goes well for the population already there.

[pinkfoot]

Then why have any immigration laws at all? If every possible immigrant is a positive contribution.

But… if some are a drain on your limited resources, unhealthy competition for your most vulnerable, or just plain dangerous to your values, then you need immigration laws.

Which is what pretty much every country on earth has concluded. Even the poorest.

[Splognosticus]

Literally nobody is arguing that there ought to be no immigration laws at all. But obviously we can treat the families of natural born citizens better without completely letting the whole system fall to anarchy.

[tartoran]

Why mentioned illegal immigration? That should be illegal in the first place. What Trump does is temporarily suspend ALL immigration.

There's a drain on limited resources but the idea in America was to attract all the talent and this resulted brain drain in other places, which for a US was a winning point. So, maybe this is a good thing, for other countries??

And let me remind you the real reason the limited resources are being drained the most: the rich eschew their taxes through tax heavens and what not. It is easy to blame it on immigrants to move the attention away from the tax loopholes and other shenanigans the super rich are doing.