Great Wall of the U.S.

The argument for granting citizenship to illegal immigrants in the U.S. has been that they provide workers for jobs Americans themselves would not do, and, implicitly, at a salary well below what is fair and legal. The irony in this is that if illegal immigrants become citizen, with full rights and choices, why would they want to do these jobs and for that money? What business really wants is for the non-enforcement of immigration laws. That way their workers remain underground and unable to choose their works and demand for better pay. The true benefited of the immigrants’ illegality is the businesses and, indirectly, all the consumers. So, granting citizenship would not do what it professed to accomplish. The opposite side of the argument does not work either. The proposal to build a great wall along the southern, or even the northern, border simply increase the illegality of these immigrants but would not stop their appearances. It is simply another layer of chains that is on the illegals tying them to undesirable and underpaid jobs. Smugglers will demand much more money, employers will offer less and the illegals will be much more desperate.