If you own a company, you can hire these people for less than any other US resident would accept. This lets businesses be scumbags and increase the unemployment for non-skilled labor, since everyone would hire illegal immigrants. And no, just because someone didn't go to college or isn't particularly skilled doesn't mean that they deserve to live on the streets.
Help me understand why opportunistic businesses exploiting undocumented workers for cheap labor that would otherwise be illegal is an issue of immigrants stealing jobs rather than one of businesses being scummy and operating under inadequate oversight
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Comparing the authorities not wanting unregistered illegal immigrants to cross the border with the government spying you 24/7. Holy hyperbole batman.
Except... The authorities are literally there to intercept anyone crossing the border and give them assistance. They're not there strictly to detain them, as asylum seeking isn't a crime and a first time undocumented border crossing is only a misdemeanor (as
@Xzi was suggesting, not unlike jaywalking, loitering, or driving with a taillight out). Immigration courts are there to assess whether or not the individual has committed asylum fraud (i.e. brought children that aren't theirs, crossed the border to distribute drugs, etc.), but up until the point that they have been found guilty of asylum fraud (and actually there's a lot of shady shit the courts do to get them to plead guilty now that family separation is a policy, but I'm not going to get into that now), they HAVE NOT committed a crime
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What are they supposed to do, let them get into the country?
Well... Yes, actually, that is, assuming they haven't been found guilty of fraud then that's exactly what we're supposed to do. That's literally how our asylum process works
Give them to US foster homes? On what grounds? They aren't their children.
Best case that's correct, but worst case that's dangerously presumptuous. And, actually, that's already what's happening. If you want I can link you to a few articles of kids that have been tossed into the foster system and adopted! even though the parents are alive and may or may not have been deported, but were given no appeal
Kick them back outside the border while the parents are detained? That's even more cruel than simply detaining them.
Or, and hear me out, detain the family together as a unit. You seem to have just glossed right over that option as though it was somehow absurd
Or actually using them as sympathy cards to get to the border and hope to be left alone because you're carrying one.
That's... Not how our system works at all. You don't get "sympathy points" for having a child with you, EVERYONE who has crossed gets stopped and asked of their intent then detained, and depending on what their answer was and the verdict of their immigration court hearing either allowed asylum or deported back to their home country