Simple concept that political whores wanting votes run from. Sad state of affairs we have. Actually, evil state of affairs we have...
Ya, immigration is a huge problem for western democracies that import third wolrders by the hundreds of thousands, and expect some sort of magical economic revolution to spring forth from it. The frasier institute (canadian conservative economic thinktank) published a study that concluded immigrants are a net drain on the canadian economy, to the tune of 50 billion dollars, per year. Predominately, they work low skilled, low pay jobs, contribute next to nothing in taxes and use a whole slew of social services and welfare handouts. Problem is much bigger though. Jobs are shipped overseas, replaced with unsustainable debt. Open borders during a terror war. Useless wars and massive bailouts to the corporate elite. On and on. The country is fucked up one side and down the other. Baby boomers, in large part, checked out and let a bunch of criminals run america for decades. They didn't give a shit. I'm appualed that most people still don't give a shit. So long as the ebt cards, medicare and social security keep flowing, the major voting blocks in this country cudnt give a shit if charles manson himself ran it. Old timers, minorities and welfare parasites basically dictate policy.
A more effective approach would be to make hiring an illegal immigrant a felony, with a minimum prison sentence of, say, two years.