This country was a frontier in 1819. We needed labor to tame the wilderness. We don't need more unskilled laborers anymore.

We have immigration laws. The US is incredibly generous, and naturalizes more than 1 million immigrants each year.

The American people don't want a "path" for illegal aliens. We already tried that in 1986. All it did was incentivize more illegal immigration.

And what the last administration did was absolutely flooding the nation. They removed nearly every EO related to border security, and then complained that they needed more laws to "fix" the problem they created.

> I'm all for a system where we screen our immigrants for criminals, terrorists, etc. But the current system is broken,

The current system is broken insofar as we are not enforcing the law thoroughly enough. We already have a system, it just needs to be followed. All illegal aliens have to go back.