But here's the problem: we don't have a "broken immigration system." We have immigrants. Frankly, we rely on them. We can't function without them. And we have occasionally tried. The fact is that everyone in this country, or his or her forebears, except the Native Americans, is an immigrant. The only ones of us who had serious problems caused by immigrants were the Native Americans. And if we want to throw out every undocumented immigrant who commits a crime (a lower percentage than documented immigrants and long-standing Americans), should we also throw out all people who commit crimes and who are of Irish descent, or Italian descent, or German descent, or various Asian descents, or British descent? What about all Jews, and Christians, who commit crimes? Or who are arrested, not necessarily with reliable evidence? This is the dumbest game anyone could imagine playing, and it is not only performative, but timid and cowardly.