ICE is arresting illegals. If arresting illegals is not legal and wrong somehow then i don't know anymore... #backtheblue
A lot of the people who are here illegally are, according to the right, Venezuelans abusing the asylum process. It is true that many Venezuelans who have claimed asylum aren't actually in danger of political retribution, and that they crossed many safe countries to get here as 'economic migrants'.
What is forgotten though is that all of the safe countries in between have also taken in millions of Venezuelans, and the Venezuelan economy is so bad that many of them are not able to feed their families. These people are walking thousands of miles with the one wish of becoming US citizens, the same way most of our ancestors did 100 years ago under a largely deregulated and open system of immigration from europe. Open, mostly deregulated, and large scale immigration is what has defined and made America the most powerful nation on the planet.
Ideology aside, what are the benefits going to be for citizens in a conservative utopia where all the "illegals" are removed? People say the economy will be better, but we would have lost billions in tax revenue and saved little to nothing given that the only public services illegal immigrants currently take advantage of en masse are public schools which work on the economy of scale. Even if they did receive full rights to what welfare there is, like everyone else here, the vast majority of government spending would never go to them, it would go to corrupt contractors, the military, and social security (which is an inverted pyramid scheme that no one under the age of 35 is ever going to see as things are).
There are hundreds of thousands of open positions right now that companies can't fill as it is, adding even more open jobs by removing illegal immigrants won't solve anything, because there will never be enough citizens to fill these new jobs. We can't fill the huge surplus of jobs we have, yes even if many of the listings are fake or corporate tax write offs there is still a huge surplus. Wages are not going to go up suddenly because there are millions of more jobs than people, the corporations will just acknowledge that the labor pool doesn't exist in the US anymore and outsource what they need to other nations for cheaper, contributing to somebody else's economy.