My parents were immigrants in the 1950s. In order to stay in the US they had to have a sponsor. That sponsor was financially responsible for the immigrant they sponsored. If the sponsor was no longer able to be financially responsible for the immigrant the immigrant was returned to the country they came from. This was set up to ensure that the responsibility for the immigrant's well-being was with a private sponsor and not the taxpayer. We follow that and this whole problem goes away. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors
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Many things were done in the 50s with the most basic common sense, cumulating in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (The McCarran-Walter Act).
1952 McCarran-Walter Act
Then in the 60s, the (D)ems changed the law.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act) was the beginning of the end. It ended the country quota system, replacing it with a 'family and skilled labor' componets. In practice, we ended up with chain migration and H1Bs, among other nonsense.
1965 Hart-Celler Act
The illegal judiciary temper tantrums playing out for the last six months are nothing more than theatre for the masses. The law is very clear what an illegal can, and cannot do. The difference now, is we have a President willing to push the law down their throats.
2025 Due Process and Aliens: What They Are and Are Not Entitled to in Immigration Proceedings
I hope it's enough to win.
Yes, I was here when those thing happened -- and Teddy Kennedy was a big supporter of them.
Anyone who was opposed to Hart-Celler was called a Racist.