I Am Sick And Tired Of The Anti-immigration Laws

We are told by experts across the political spectrum that corporations like liberal immigration laws.

What corporations want is cheap labor that has no enforceable rights. Therefore, they would, indeed, despise well-enforced, strict, anti-immigration laws because such a system would greatly limit the number of immigrants in the country who could potentially be cheap labor with no enforceable rights. But corporations would [b]also[/b] hate it if undocumented immigrants got a pathway to citizenship because this would result in virtually all immigrants in the country having enforceable rights.

Hence, what corporations want is tough immigration laws that are sporadically enforced. They want the laws tough so that there is no legal avenue for most people in the world to immigrate to the United States, forcing people to choose between coming illegally and not coming at all. Since the push factors which inspired them to consider seriously leaving their country are very, very strong, many will choose to come to the United States illegally. But corporations want these tough laws to be enforced only sporadically so that, at any given time, there are a lot of undocumented immigrants in the country. Undocumented immigrants do not want to come to the attention of any government agency; therefore, if their employers do not pay them the minimum wage, give them breaks, etc, then the undocumented immigrants will NOT report the situation to the government.

In this manner, corporations would like to continue to exploit desperate undocumented immigrants in order to maximize their profits. The only system that allows this to happen is one with unreasonably tough, but sporadically enforced, immigration laws.

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amaricul · 22-25, F

Uh.....you CAN be a legal immigrant and it is NOT difficult at all to do! My father immigrated legally from Taiwan at the age of 7. While he's currently hiding out in Taiwan to evade a grand jury indictment and arrest warrants he naturalized as a US citizen years ago and can still obtain US passport IF he ever pays his child support arrears. There is a right and wrong way to do everything in life and as you stated millions CHOOSE to come the USA the wrong way and cannot blame anyone else for their difficulties and exploitation.

butterflybaby75 · 46-50, F

@amaricul Almost every country has legal pathways to immigration but people will always try to circumvent them.

33person · 26-30, M

@amaricul A lot hinges on which country you are coming from, how much money you have, etc. and a lot of these things depend on where you were born, which you can't control. I tend to think it's easier to come here from Taiwan than from, say, Azerbaijan. I'm not suggesting that people who came here illegally should blame anyone for the government not protecting rights that they legally do not have. What I am suggesting is that the legal way to come in here needs to be less difficult for good people from certain countries to come here legally. I just think that corporations do like to have a lot of people here illegally so that they can take advantage of people who have no legal rights. And I think corporations tend to get what they want, politically. So corporations don't want to limit illegal immigration, and they also don't want to make it easier for people to come here legally. Rather, they want it to be easier for people to come here illegally.