Originally Posted by MKRG
disenfranchised? That makes it sound like the government did it to them! They're the ones who put themselves in that position. It's not the government's fault they jumped the border.
Yes it is, we created the situation, not them. They know there are jobs here while where they are there are none. They know that they will be allowed to work when they arrive. Who provided those jobs? American citizens. Who does the hiring? We do. Why? Ask the government and those doing the hiring. It's an open invitation when proper citizens reward those less fortunate with fair, low or criminally low wages for being an undocumented worker.
Do you really believe that a large group of undocumented workers arrived in the US and created these jobs they now fill? Historically, you'd be right, since many colonists were here under the sanction of foriegn kings & queens or not, and thereby illegal. It doesn't apply to the current situation though. That is our doing.