Swamp Wars and Illegal Immigration....

I enjoy watching Swamp Wars, featuring the Venom 1 team of the Miami-Dade fire department.  One of the re-runs shown over the weekend documented the rescue of a large iguana that had gotten stuck in a chain link fence.  The officer successfully freed the animal from the fence, then put it into a pet carrier for transport.  As she did so, a neighbor asked to see the iguana, wondering aloud why it was necessary to remove it from the area.  The officer explained that, since the iguana was an invasive species, it would have been illegal to release it back into the wild.  The neighbor protested that such iguanas were seen all the time in the neighborhood; she didn't think that they represented a problem.  Then she made this statement:

"I don't think it's fair that an animal, just because it's not native of this territory, should be, you know, removed because of that. Being American equals to being an immigrant."

Wow.  Open borders logic applied not only to illegal immigration, but now to invasive species as well.  A person or an animal is American by virtue of migrating (as opposed to immigrating) here - regardless of the method of entry or the damage that might be caused.  I am 100% in favor of legal immigration; my own family came to be in this country that way four generations ago. But LEGAL is the operative word.  Anything else is invasive.