>let people break the law, because they are economically beneficial
Doesn't sound very humanistic to me, especially if you think who benefits the most from their unregulated labour.
While having secret police running around and forcing their way without any discretion is quite bad and ill omen for the future, it doesn't eliminate all the problems that are brought with illegal immigration (and even legal one as well). One could argue, that this ICE showdown is a reaction to almost pathological leniency before, when people in need were used as economical benefits for the rich, as it was mostly them that benefited from employing illegally all those workers, while unloading all nasty side effect on the common folk.
You said it very well. Personally I would even go so far as to say it is a manufactured crisis perpetuated by both parties for the benefit of the rich in this country.
> Doesn't sound very humanistic to me, especially if you think who benefits the most from their unregulated labour.
I'm not arguing they should be breaking the law. Hence the whole "Make it easier to be documented" line. I'm saying we should change the law to document these people. This would be the first step towards making their labor regulated. I'm absolutely in agreement the current policies just lead to lots of abuse in many ways.
Yeah, we should. The problem is, there are powers, and people behind them, that benefits from undocumentness of immigrants. To make matter even worse, they typically have funds to lobby for no changes, or changes for worse.
Isn't it similar case as in tax refunds and what not? Very purposeful obfuscation to make TurboTax required.
Doesn't sound very humanistic to me, especially if you think who benefits the most from their unregulated labour.
While having secret police running around and forcing their way without any discretion is quite bad and ill omen for the future, it doesn't eliminate all the problems that are brought with illegal immigration (and even legal one as well). One could argue, that this ICE showdown is a reaction to almost pathological leniency before, when people in need were used as economical benefits for the rich, as it was mostly them that benefited from employing illegally all those workers, while unloading all nasty side effect on the common folk.