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Except most of those countries have a rational immigration policy that makes it reasonably easy for good people to immigrate. When you have an obviously stupid law on the books you get rid of the law and replace it with a better one. If you fixed the law and streamlined things so that good people could get in legally easier then you wouldn't need a boarder wall at all because 98% of the people crossing the Mexican boarder are in fact good people who should be allowed in. Putting up a wall or throwing current illegal immigrants out of the country would be like saying you have to completely stop all alcohol consumption and arrest every person who drank a beer under prohibition before you can repeal prohibition. If a law is dumb get rid of it.
There's also the fact that unlike every other country in the world the United States was founded by immigrants. People who were running away from the Tyranny and BS going on in the rest of the world. The plaque at Ellis Island states "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free." Blocking immigration is probably the single most anti-American idea that could possibly be entertained.
The whole idea of American Exceptionalism is based on the notion that America is unique and superior to the rest of the world so relying on what the rest of the world does with immigrants is probably not the best solution. Further more if you like what other countries are doing with immigrants why don't you try to immigrate to one of those countries so you can have immigration policy that's nothing like America.
The truth is that if Trump supporters and other Republicans were only worried about "Illegal" immigration they could simply fix that by just making them all legal. They wont do that however because their real problem is not a hatred of Illegal immigration it's a hatred of all immigrants. Specifically those that are coming from countries filled with brown people.
Who are these good people that the US law is keeping out?