I want migrants to come to the USA

My people weren't vetted when they came through Ellis Island in the 1880's. They somehow convinced somebody that they weren't insane, sickly, and unwilling or unable to work. And they became Americans. No citizenship tests or forms. The Germans on my father side couldn't even speak English.

IMHO we not only need to secure the borders, not only should we vett immigrants, but we need to be more selective. We can't bring in people who are fundamentally hostile to the United States for geopolitical reasons. We can't bring in people who are fundamentally unwilling or unable to integrate at any level.

We are so unable and unwilling to do this because of prejudice and bigotry. I think we are allowed that bigotry. Anyone is. To not import hostile culture, criminal enterprises, and so on.

I agree. My father was born in Germany in 1937 and came to the US legally as an immigrant in 1957. He had to immediately Register for the draft right away, pay taxes, had to have a job arranged before being allowed to immigrate, had to be able to read and write English before immigrating, and lastly his first year living in the US he had to live with a Sponsor family that reported monthly as to my father's degree of acceptability to be allowed to stay in the US after that first year. That family became a second family to my father and us. He was very well vetted before allowing to come to the US.

What happened to those vetting procedures?

You know, I agree, at least to some degree and I think most people would agree at least to one degree or another. Therein lies the problem. To what degree and how is it done humanely, equitably and responsibly while still fulfilling our role as a shelter to those in need.

The way forward is not even remotely what we have today and not what we had in the recent past. Like it or not, want to deal with it or not, the world has changed and we can either get with it or be left behind and remain in the turmoil we face today and have faced for the last many years.

The answer(s) are not easy, not simpel and not something we can get to in a month, 6 months or even a year, but there are answers and what we have to do is get our members of both houses to sit down, turn off the political crap, and get busy drafting new immigration laws and policies supported by the infrastructure and funding to pull it off.

People who are coming into this country illegally could be carrying food. Passengers on all incoming flights have their luggage screened to make sure that doesn’t happen. If you don’t declare that you have prohibited food items you can be heavily fined, up to $10,000. Is there anything right about allowing millions of immigrant to bypass the rules that law-abiding individuals are expected to comply with? And this is just one smaller example of the crazy way things are being handled.

They must have a skill and/or sponsor. We don't bring them in to be a public charge

What part of immigration is "wide open?"

Your problem is that a lot of the migration you want, with education and skills, seews America as a difficult place now.. The people who want to come in numbers are poorer and will take time and resources to become useful to the nation..😷

Proper vetting is a long process. Upto a year or longer and that is when one is already a American Citizen.

Human rights aren't limited by what you want.
Conservatives only seem have that right -. War, border walls, homeless people without health care - because conservatives have feelings that matter more than my rights.

That’s going by our laws, but the Democrats are lawless, and don’t obey the laws they made.

That is fair, in my opinion. Unfortunately, the amount of effort it takes to vet immigrants is more complicated and takes more time than desperate people fleeing dire situations often have. 🙁

If you ask me, the vetting process is too strict. That's why people are bypassing it and coming into the country illegally.