The title of this blog post could easily be expanded into a very boring book, but it can be boiled down to a couple of paragraphs and still be cogent and coherent.
The simple reason behind most illegal border crossing is people's desire for a better life for themselves and their children. In many cases, their mission coincides with corporate America's search for cheap labor. When the economy is growing, the need for labor which would otherwise result in higher wages is supplied by the stream of immigrants who are illegally hired by corporations who look the other way at forged documents.
There are laws on the books with penalties for hiring illegals. If the government enforced the laws and applied the appropriate penalties, illegal border crossings would plummet as word got out that there were no jobs to be had without proper documents. It is that simple, but both Democrats and Republicans refuse to demand the laws on the books be enforced.
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