[jpsb]

I believe he said something like (para phasing) "well there is demand for (illegal) immigrate labor and there is nothing we can do about it so we may as well make it legal"

So why don't we ally that logic to say the war on drugs?

[CodeToad]

The demand for illegal labor or else "we cannot keep our business running" is the same argument used for keeping salvery legal before the Civial War: We need the cheap labor.