And again with your questions of towns strapped for cash, etc. Wealthy communities in the US have railed in the past at having to pay taxes for schools in neighboring poor towns. Do you want to be an island of prosperity and beat away everyone who just wasn't fortunate to be born into the right circumstance?
That's not the scenario, though. There are parts of the U.S. that are prosperous...but those areas are only paying a small portion of the *cost*.
It's not like the illegals are hoping the border and moving into Piney Point Village.
And it's not like there's just a a handful of people showing up at a time. We're talking about thousands of poor, (relatively) uneducated people, some of which are children with no family, just appearing in, usually, already middle-to-poorer cities. And there certainly are rapists and murderers and thieves mixed in the bunch, just like there would be with any group of very poor people. (Go find twelve thousand very poor whites in the U.S. and tell me not one of them are a rapist or a thief and I'll laugh in your face.) Poverty creates crime out of necessity.
What kind of impact does that have of the people who live in the towns where the illegals are going to? Some of those towns are just barely getting by on their own. Why are
those poor people thrown under the bus? Where is the sympathy for them?
It's such an easy thing to say or type: "Just let them in, it's the right thing to do". Well, maybe. Maybe it exasperates the problem. Maybe it hurts a whole lot of other people who are also struggling. You can't keep painting the picture as its just a bunch of well-to-do's greedily hoarding all their land and jobs from these poor immigrants who only want a scrap to survive. It's much, much, more complex than that (as rightleft mentioned above).
I'm all in favor of the U.S. spending its efforts and resources on developing Mexico, working on positive ways to improve their economy, to get rid of the crime lords and corruption that rapes that country. I think that would be a more efficient solution than using those resources to throw houses and education at the border crossers
after they get here. We have too many people here, in this country, who are citizens, who could be helped first.