That logic doesn't hold up.

Legal immigration - as is today - is about 1% of the US population. That's pretty standard, and would result in an slowly increasing population.

But regardless, saying "we need immigrants" then jumping to "illegal or not" is not a logical argument. We absolutely can have a system that prevent illegal immigration, while carefully screening legal immigrants. Heck, every country in the world does this except the US.

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halfmatthalfcat an hour ago | parent [-]

Can, if we had a functioning Congress that actually passed material laws. We’ve been trying to pass immigration reform for the last couple of decades.

	▲	filoeleven 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And we would have had bipartisan steps toward it before the last presidential election, if Trump hadn't told Republicans to tank it at the last minute because it hurt his biggest talking point for reelection.