Or maybe they will just write off their government because their government is more concerned about a foreigner who has come here illegally than about the wellbeing of the American family and the American working people. We hear this word "comprehensive." Over and over again. we have heard. We have to have comprehensive immigration reform. "Comprehensive immigration reform." what does that mean? Why do we hear that over and over again? Because they cant use the word "amnesty." And they know that. really. comprehensive immigration reform means one thing and one thing only because there is really not any type of a real argument about making our system better. But to them. when they say "comprehensive immigration reform." they mean changing the status. legalizing the status of those millions of people who are here illegally. They claim that there are 11 million. That is an old number. and that number has not been updated. And almost everyone I talk to believes that it is more like 20 million illegals who are here. not 11 million. So there is not any real problem on our part with the idea of "comprehensive reform." if we were to say. lets make the system more effective. Yes. we need border control. for example. and we need to restructure the visa system because there are a lot of people who are not only coming across the border illegally but who come here and overstay their visas. In fact. the largest number of illegals nowpeople keep thinking that we are talking about just people from Latin America. No. We have got people coming in from all over the worldmany of them on visas. many of them sneaking across the borderwho have come here illegally and are currently residing here. That number of people have an impact on the wellbeing of the American people. So. yes. lets make the system better. But lets realize that we are not talking about things that we disagree on. It has all been about whether you legalize the status of people who are here illegally. But lets just note this: We have no apologies to make about the generosity of the American people with our current system of immigration. Yes. it needs to be reformed and made more efficient. But we provide for over a million immigrants to come into our country legally every year. To put that into perspective. that is more than all of the legal immigration into other countries. into every country of the world. combined. So we permit more legal immigration than every other country of the world combined. But yet over and over again. we are made to feel guilty. that we in some way should feel guilty about our immigration system and about the fact that you have people who are here illegally and we wont legalize their status. Well. what would legalizing their status do? What would it do?
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that undocumented immigrants are a drain on the American people and economy.