Issue Position: Immigration

Issue Position

Redirect taxpayer dollars from inefficient uses (i.e., there are hundreds of very low priority/low security value military bases scattered around the world) and do what is needed to lock down the border between the USA and Mexico. Here is the touchy one - fine employers for hiring illegal immigrants. (To be fair, employers also must have EVERY federal documentation resource at their quick disposal). Leave immigration control to the Federal government. Frankly, I do not see how we can possibly continue to extend social benefits to illegal immigrants. We live in a different time now from when the 14th Amendment was created (at that time the USA was actively looking to rapidly expand it's population) which gave automatic citizenship to any child born in this country regardless of the status of the child's parents.

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