America has a long long history of accepting asylum seekers. If changes should be made to the asylum laws, we should make them. Until then, administer the rules as they are written.No, I'm not. No other developed country in the world lets non-citizens enter like we do. Not even the Central American countries where a lot of the people are coming from.
Regarding the positive impact of immigrants, they add trillions annualy to the GDP and multiple hundreds of billions in tax revenue to national, state, and local governments. Immigrant workers are essential to the agriculture industry. If you had a pork chop and a salad with a glass of milk for supper, immigrant workers were citical in getting that food to you plate.
Immigrants dominate low wage service and hospitality jobs that are difficult to fill. A relatively high percentage of new immigrants start businesses which create jobs which, in turn, generate more taxable revenue,
Focusing solely on the financial impact to assimilate new immigrants is shallow, superficial, and short sighted.