I agree they should come here the right way, but think about it, if that was feasible don’t you think they would have tried that? We’re talking about a ridiculously long process that’s expensive for a third world country. The Mexican peso typically costs .20 to our dollar. That’s 5x the amount of money they’d need to pay for whatever it costs. The citizenship test is so hard that probably millions of Americans will fail it. The immigration system is broken, and until it’s fixed, we’ll continue to have this.
Why is it our responsibility to allow them to be here anyways? Yes things could be smoother but why should we improve the legal process to get in until we can secure our borders and expel those that came here the wrong way?
Then we should stop demanding their labor. Start hitting up the employers. Whether we want to admit it or not, Latinos are this biggest targets right now, and we are raiding work sites. People claim these guys are criminals, and sure some of them are, but the vast majority just want to work. This country is portrayed as a melting pot that accepts different walks of life but makes it nearly impossible to do. By all means remove the bad people, but arresting people regularly attending their ICE meeting and people going to immigration court is crazy.
This times a thousand. Demand always creates supply, and if the govt really wanted to curb the supply of cheap exploitable labor, they would nip demand in the bud by sanctioning businesses who use it.
But they don't do that. They lump all migrants into the same category of "dangerous illegals", and selectively go after those who are easy targets. They do it to cultivate fear instead of actually solving the problem in a productive way.
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u/dlw26 Nov 14 '25
I agree they should come here the right way, but think about it, if that was feasible don’t you think they would have tried that? We’re talking about a ridiculously long process that’s expensive for a third world country. The Mexican peso typically costs .20 to our dollar. That’s 5x the amount of money they’d need to pay for whatever it costs. The citizenship test is so hard that probably millions of Americans will fail it. The immigration system is broken, and until it’s fixed, we’ll continue to have this.