Immigration
Position Summary
Legal immigrants have made numerous, beneficial contributions to our society. Historically, the U.S. has always been a “melting pot”, assimilating legal immigrants into our culture. Today, however, illegal immigration threatens both our homeland security and our economic future. It is bad for our country and it is bad for the illegal immigrants themselves. In some cases, illegals are treated as little better than slave labor. Many times illegal immigrants are forced to pay coyotes up to $10,000 in order to cross the border. Sometimes these individuals are dropped off in arid areas where they die of dehydration. They often become victims of drug cartels, who exploit them sexually, financially, and physically, including murder.
If we care about our fellow human beings, we must support legal immigration by encouraging them to come to America through the legal process. Minnesota’s Governor and the Democrat Party support turning Minnesota into a “sanctuary state”, which will bring in illegal drugs, crime and sexual exploitation, along with exponentially growing the state budget and local property taxes.
Many illegals are trapped in permanent government dependency, with no chance of entering the middle class. The solution is to secure our borders and enforce our current immigration laws. Glenn supports measures to ensure that immigration is both legal and orderly.