Don't you know we have immigration laws in the country. We have legal immigration and there are illegals crossing our border, those crossing illegally are breaking our laws. That's a fact
In part true.
Those who cross the US border and who DO NOT present themselves to the US border control authorities - especially those who have no intention of doing so but who do intend to remain in the US - within the time period permitted by US law ARE breaking the laws of the United States of America.
However, any person who crosses the US border - regardless of where or how they cross it - but DO present themselves to the US border control authorities within the time period permitted by US law - ARE NOT breaking the laws of the United States of America.
Since almost all US border control offices are physically located INSIDE the United States of America, it is (almost always) necessary to enter the United States of America BEFORE reporting to one.
The offence IS NOT (and I'm paraphrasing not citing the actual words of the statute) "entering the United States of America without first obtaining permission" (since you have to, in most cases, enter the United States of America in order to obtain permission to REMAIN in the United States of America. Rather the offence IS (and I'm paraphrasing not citing the actual words of the statute) "remaining in the United States of America without having the permission needed to do so".
It's not hard for me to understand.
Indeed it isn't.
That why we need a closed border.
So your position is that no one should be allowed to enter the United States of America in order to "check in" with the CBP people and thus have their permission to be in the United States of America affirmed or rejected?
BTW, are you going to build walls all along the Atlantic Coast, the Canada/US border, the Pacific Coast, each and every one of the Aleutian Islands, the Arctic Ocean Coast, each and every one of the Hawai'ian Islands, and all of the American possessions?
And with your open border policy anyone can come across and it's a magnat for terrorist to come across, all they have to do is walk across.
In fact, the "open border" that you want to spend $25Bn to $50Bn to "protect" has had a total of SIX
potential (in this case "potential" includes "comes from a country that terrorists might come from, but we don't know any more about them than that") "terrorists" intercepted in the past year.