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There is a TON of anti-immigrant propaganda. Whenever the economy is shit -- which it often is now, because of the massive disparity between rich and poor -- immigration is an easy target.
It's easy to say things like market rates for labor are lowered due to an influx of immigrant labor, or that immigrants are taking jobs. There is a good case to be made that things like the H1-B program do artificially lower wages and do mean that there are fewer jobs for citizens -- but the spin is always against the immigrants and never against the companies exploiting them.
Yeah, the problem has always been that we've given illegal immigration an easy system to exploit by having people out there employing them for less and paying under the table to avoid taxes and insurance. The whole solution that's happening is equivalent to rounding up drug users while letting dealers go free, it makes no sense. There needs to be stiff penalties for employing people illegally. If there's no jobs available, people will be less inclined to live and work here illegally.
Why things are the way they are we can attribute to whatever anyone wants, racism, capitalism, whatever. I'll just lump it under people being shitheads and regular people paying for it.