Let's see how many Neg reps I will get for this...
Seems this has to do with immigration, to a certain degree. I'll state here that I believe it is time to close our borders significantly. Why? Consider the following analogy...
Let's say you want to have a party at your house. You've had parties before, and they were always great. So word of another party spreads fast. Your house holds a maximum of 200 people. You order enough food to cover 250 people (some people always wants seconds). And so time for the party. What do you do when about 250 people show up? Maybe you let them come and hang out outside (weather permitting of course). But at what point, if people keep showing up, do you say "Stop!" and turn people away? 300 people? 500 people? At what number do they start to become agitated because they heard your parties were awesome, yet there is not enough food, room, etc?
And so is my view of immigration today. Our country is a mess, economically, from a jobs perspective, and so on. We need to mend this country without hurting those who are here already.
That does not mean it stays that way forever. Just until we are strong again, strong enough to adequately take on those who wish to come here.
Now, some will say that those who come here provide a service to this country, the economy, etc. I accept that as true. But, not all. There are those who come here, take decent jobs, pay taxes - all a good thing. But the economic system, when it is working properly, has the money earned here spent here. Not all those who come here for the opportunities that are available spend their earned money here in the USA. Some funnel a portion of the money back to their home country (families), who cannot get to this country. And there are those who go out of their way to buy products imported into this country from their native country, in the hopes of helping their homeland, or because they miss what their native country offered, and so on. That process does little to help America's economy... certainly not as much as spending that money here. Believe me - this happens more than you may realize.
That written out, I also hold true to the fact they have the freedom to do all that. That is in fact one of the very reasons this country is sought after as a place to live, such as it is. I just question the true loyalties. When one becomes a citizen of the United States, you should devote yourself to this country and its general well-being.
(Yes, I have left a lot of tangent topics out of this. Sooo much is tied to this topic, one could write for days and still only scratch the surface. These are just my views on what was covered above.)