I think the most
obvious importance of this issue is the fact that the current system of immigration and border
security in the United States is broken. There is little incentive for people to come here
legally since the process is so expensive and time consuming, while most people who come here
are doing so because they are economically desperate.
While it is certainly
true that the labor force immigrants (both legal and illegal) provide is currently necessary for
our economy to expand and function, we cannot continue to both employ them and call for their
expulsion and denial of services. We either have to revamp our economy so that immigrant labor
is not needed and the prevailing wage will attract citizen workers (quite unlikely), or we need
immigration reform to create a functional system that allows these workers to come here, find a
path to citizenship, and become an open and valued part of the American
workforce.
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