Yeah, we should. The problem is, there are powers, and people behind them, that benefits from undocumentness of immigrants. To make matter even worse, they typically have funds to lobby for no changes, or changes for worse.
Isn't it similar case as in tax refunds and what not? Very purposeful obfuscation to make TurboTax required.
>let people break the law, because they are economically beneficial
Doesn't sound very humanistic to me, especially if you think who benefits the most from their unregulated labour.
While having secret police running around and forcing their way without any discretion is quite bad and ill omen for the future, it doesn't eliminate all the problems that are brought with illegal immigration (and even legal one as well). One could argue, that this ICE showdown is a reaction to almost pathological leniency before, when people in need were used as economical benefits for the rich, as it was mostly them that benefited from employing illegally all those workers, while unloading all nasty side effect on the common folk.
>The industrial revolution didn't bring prosperity to anyone except the capital owners
This is simply not true. Compare life of common man of today, to one from 3 centuries before. Quality of life increased tenfold, medicine, knowledge access, world travelability, life expentancy, political representation etc.
Of course capital owners get richer even still, but suggesting we were better of without inudstrail revolution is just disingenous.
Yeah, we should. The problem is, there are powers, and people behind them, that benefits from undocumentness of immigrants. To make matter even worse, they typically have funds to lobby for no changes, or changes for worse.
Isn't it similar case as in tax refunds and what not? Very purposeful obfuscation to make TurboTax required.