If what you say is true and you believe it, then surely you're for deporting all illegal immigrants who artificially deflate wages by working for less than is legal.
That does not follow from what I said, you can also just declare them legal and enforce paying them minimum wages. Heck, you can even try to keep them illegal and enforce minimum wages, if you discover an illegal immigrant working below minimum wage just go after the employer and leave the worker alone.
And I am not a US citizen or living in the USA, so I have no stakes in what happens to illegal immigrants in the USA and in turn also no well-founded opinion. On the one hand there is the law and if you violate it, you have to deal with the consequences, so there is certainly a point for expelling illegal immigrants.
On the other hand you probably should also take the lives of the immigrants into account. Can you justify the consequences? Ripping families apart, sending people back into unsafe futures or countries? And what about the economic consequences?
Maybe the USA could pardon all current illegal immigrants while then being more aggressive towards new ones? I really don't know what I would suggest, that is not a topic I ever really thought about.
And I am not a US citizen or living in the USA, so I have no stakes in what happens to illegal immigrants in the USA and in turn also no well-founded opinion. On the one hand there is the law and if you violate it, you have to deal with the consequences, so there is certainly a point for expelling illegal immigrants.
On the other hand you probably should also take the lives of the immigrants into account. Can you justify the consequences? Ripping families apart, sending people back into unsafe futures or countries? And what about the economic consequences?
Maybe the USA could pardon all current illegal immigrants while then being more aggressive towards new ones? I really don't know what I would suggest, that is not a topic I ever really thought about.