Ask Pardes 2: The Wall and Immigration
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): PardesSeleh.com
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/10/17
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you think about the wall?
Pardes Seleh: I think there should be a wall in the way Israel has a wall, perhaps. A wall that does the job, which enforces the law or those boundaries. Otherwise, there is no reason for it being there.
Jacobsen: What about immigration?
Seleh: I think that once there is a wall and a way to enforce and regulate the amount of the flow of legal versus illegal immigrants across the border. There shouldn’t be a problem of anchor babies because you wouldn’t be having people using illegal methods.
People would have to use legal methods to get into the country. Ideally, a wall eliminates the problem of anchor babies. What about those who have overstayed and had babies?
Deporting illegal persons whose entire family is here, who has been here for years, is much tougher than doing that to someone who has overstayed their visa, it would have been done anyway.
Once there is the defined border, this solves a lot of those issues. I think there should be a transition period, where some are given priority and then granted visas because not to reward the disregard of the law but to compensate for our failure to enforce the law.
For a time, until the wall is established, to have some priority granting visas for people who have been here for a time and anyone who comes after has to follow the newly established rules, those will be stricter but not as harsh.
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