> I'm not anti immigrant just anti illegal immigration. Big difference.

I clearly laid out my position that both the current panic over high “illegal crossings”, and the general discord over undocumented people in the US during the previous decades, are purposefully manufactured political crises sustained by the same people who avoid improving the situation. It’s not a coincidence that as immigration expanded to include all racial groups, it suddenly became much harder to immigrate legally in the second half of the 20th century & after.

I think instead of this broken system, the US should be open to all immigrants in a manner closer to when my Irish and Italian ancestors immigrated legally with ease during the racist Exclusion Era.

> Over a million people crossed the border illegally last year is that ok?

With the context of what I said above, and given the other option is your authoritarian notion of a militarized border & strict enforcement without huge fixes to the system first, yes I am essentially okay with the crossings. Our nation has always had large inflows of immigrants. What has changed is our ineptitude at providing efficient means of legal immigration at scale. The dysfunction serves a cynical purpose.