Immigration

It seems to me this is not the single issue it's often presented as, but a multi-faceted one. I'm going to attempt to break it up a bit.

• Illegal vs Legal immigration
  
  An argument I hear a lot is "we have to pass amnesty, because we need more people for low pay, menial jobs". This country already has a green card system allowing legal immigrant residency. If we truly need to have more people here to pick fruit or do other manual labor it seems to me it would make a lot more sense to issue out more green cards to people who are obeying the law and waiting to enter the U.S., than giving amnesty to people who have broken U.S. immigration law to get here. Those people should NOT be getting work preference over people waiting for green cards, and amnesty allowing them to stay here would do just that.
  


• Illegal Alien Felons
  
  I don't understand why there is even a debate about this. Illegal aliens convicted of a felony need to be GONE the second their jail sentence is served. Their feet should not even hit the pavement outside of the jail, they should be placed on a bus and deported back to their home country, or taken to the airport and flown out if they come from overseas. Even if we instituted an amnesty program, illegal alien felons should not be eligible for it. The same goes for any so called "sanctuary cities", if they are found to be harboring illegal alien felons federal funding should be cut off until the policy of sheltering them is halted. It needs to be made clear to them they are banned from re entry in the U.S., and any attempts to return will be rewarded by a mandatory prison sentence. The U.S. has more than it's fair share of native crooks, it doesn't need to import any.