We need to defend our borders - Yes, and we already have laws against criminals. FAIL.
There is border violence - Yes, and drug violence is 100% world governments' fault in the first place, and drugs should be legalized. FAIL.
They don't pay taxes and cost us money - This is a case against entitlements, not immigration. So, cut entitlement programs and meanwhile, only give benefits to proven citizens or those who can prove they've paid taxes. FAIL.
Law and order - Defending law for law's sake is not a virtue. What if the law said we had to hang every person who was 25 years old? Laws are only as good as the principles behind them. FAIL.
Let's take a step back and look at this objectively to see what illegal immigrants are supposedly doing that is so wrong. For the sake of example, I will use someone who is peaceful and is coming here to work. The other cases are covered above. So, they are crossing a line in order to improve their lives and work to earn money. Sorry folks, but that does not violate anyone's rights and does not threaten me in any way. You know what does? Someone weaving in and out of highway traffic like a maniac when I'm driving to work. I'm more concerned with speeding, which actually threatens my safety, rather than peaceful illegal immigration, which does not.
And therein lies my problem with the GOP candidates' push against illegal immigration: it is not based on any sort of objective threat, which is what laws are supposed to protect us against. Therefore you have the contradiction of a supposedly pro-freedom political party pushing for fines against businesses for hiring someone (again, a totally peaceful activity that doesn't violate anyone's rights). Crazy! That's what happens when you forget your principles.
There is really only one reason any country has a right to stop people at the border, and that is to protect its security. Not to save jobs, not to keep America Caucasian or preserve its religious makeup, not to limit our population. The purpose is to keep us safe, period. If we do more than that, then we are violating the rights of would-be immigrants, not the other way around.
A political party that wants to advocate freedom needs to spend its efforts making immigration easy and quick (which it is not), not punishing people who want to improve their lives.
Disclaimer: my politics.
