Americans don’t want amnest. It will hurt the labor market while making the governm,ent spend more on programs. It will bring drubnks and criminals into the counrty.
Why do the politicians keep pursuing this?
Because the politicians are playing a numbers game that puts little value on "the individual." From the article ...
Republicans may have been reluctant to employ their own version of this economic populism for a variety of reasons. Free trade and the idea that immigration will increase the size of the economy, even if marginally depressing wages, has been entrenched in the conservative policy world for years, even decades.Immigration increases the size of the economy. That's all that matters to the politician. Negative impact on the individual (called here, "marginally depressing wages") is fine, as long as the political class retains control.