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But unless you address the root cause of this immigration it will continue. Simply making it illegal will not solve the problem, like the War on Drugs, it makes it worse.
You don't understand the problem. Sneaking into the country is already illegal. When you don't enforce the law, people will ignore it. That's what we're seeing today, we are not enforcing our laws and they are being ignored.
The root cause of illegal immigration is that the Mexican government is corrupt and no one is standing up to change it. The reason no one is trying to change it is because it's easier just to run across our borders. Close the borders and the Mexicans will be forced to fix their own problems in their own country instead of running from it and wrecking ours.
You are right about illegals driving down wages because they are illegal, but if you make them legal it will not raise their pay, it will cost them a job. Why keep a newly legalized person on the job that will cost more to hire when I can fire him and hire two more illegals? The newly legalized person is now entitled to welfare and government assistance for being unemployed, so now you've raised unemployment and attracted more illegals into our country.
You are constantly talking about how bad corporate America is, yet you defend them with illegal immigrants. Corporate America profits off of illegals while Americans lose out. Again, you can't demand fair wages and allow illegals into the country, economics does not work that way.