You are absolutely right on that. The Republican elites are apparently beholden to commercial interests that are addicted to cheap, easily exploited labor.
Hence, I continue to maintain that illegal immigration only benefits the elites on both sides of the border.
I heard recently that about 25% of the total citizenry of Mexico is now in the USA.
At what point do we just say, ‘to heck with it, let’s annex all of Mexico’?
The trouble with many of the newcomers is that they want to turn the southwest USA into the conditions like their homeland. So why did they leave, if those conditions were so great?