Discussions of immigration in the US seem to be all muddled. You have the MAG@s saying deportation of immigrants will save the lives of America's cats and dogs, and you have liberals apparently saying "our economy would collapse" if immigrants are deported. Both sound ridiculous.
There is a meaningful distinction between an illegal immigrant (someone in the country without authorization to be here) and a legal immigrant who is authorized to be here. I can't understand any argument that there is a benefit to an illegal immigrant entering the US and residing here. By definition there is no benefit. The "15,000,000 immigrants are deported" argument above seems to blend the two types of immigrants together to reach its wild, unsupported conclusions of US economic collapse.
There is also a meaningful distinction between immigrants from east-Asia being authorized to work here in highly-skilled technology jobs, and immigrants from anywhere in central and south America or the Caribbean (or Africa or the Mid-East) coming here to provide "cheap immigrant labor." We need the former to some degree and any need for the latter seems like a myth -- I've never bought into, nor seen any facts leading me to buy into, the whole "they do work that white Americans refuse to do" bit. I highly doubt there are such vast number of illegal immigrants in the US that are performing low skill, low pay work to where the "economy would collapse" if they were all sent home. Nor do I see illegal or legal immigrants doing work that white Americans feel too lazy and privileged to do. That's quite a neat perception of white America that liberals have conjured up.
If there are legal immigrants being processed through to put shingles on roofs or wash dishes or haul buckets, then we need to re-evaluate our skill level criteria for immigration, but that is maybe a different issue. Illegal immigrants are simply not doing that low-skill work on a large scale. They don't have the basic documents (except fake ones) necessary to gain employment in the US and consequently the VAST majority of employers can't and won't hire them. Many of those illegals can and do, however, live with relatives or other free places in the US and get lots of government and charity assistance and consume lots of US taxpayer resources.
Immigration is an issue in the election. Harris and the Democrats have handled it as poorly politically as possible and a lot of that comes from liberals actually defending illegal immigration -- this "we actually need illegality, it's actually a good thing." WTF? No it is not good to have a large stream of immigrants illegally crossing the border every day, taking up residence and consuming large amounts of society resources. That should not be happening on the scale it is and should be severely discouraged by government agents on horseback with whips and lassos and stuff.
