DEAR AMERICA: Here's Why We Have To Reform The Immigration System

John Moore/Getty ImagesFor a nation of immigrants, Americans are pretty hostile to those currently trying to enter their borders.

That attitude and our policies that enforce are starting to cause trouble.

First America is driving away the high-skill foreign workers that its economy desperately needs. Second, blocking young immigrant workers and their families could prove devastating to tax-funded entitlement programs. Instead U.S. policy leads to illegal immigration and all the problems and lost opportunities that go with it.

And that's just the start. The following slides break down with charts exactly why America needs to bust through narrow-minded objections and reform immigration right now.