You'd have a stronger case if there were no such things as general assistance for able bodied adults and no minimum wage laws. But we are a long ways away from getting rid of either of those things.
Let me be clear. I think we ought to tighten our borders. But I also think it makes sense to have a guest worker program for those who have been working here and obeying our laws for at least two years.
I also believe in immigration, legal immigration.
The problem with our country is it's leaders.
For the last sixty years or so they have quit doing their jobs and ignored their oaths of office. They do not put the interest of the whole country and whole people first.
They have become a chamber of Commerce for corporate America and have sold their offices to the highest bidder.
Businesses are run by executives with one thing in mind that is increase the bottom line. This is as it should be because that is what they are payed to do.
They are not concerned if what they do may harm the country or the people in it. That's the job our elected officials are supposed to do.
When they listened to the lobbyists for business and passed laws that encouraged Corporations to invest their money in foreign countries and done away with the tariffs that's where things went wrong.
Those controls had been in in place for many years and promoted America first and we grew strong under them.
They were put in place to pay for a limited government, protect our standard of living, our markets [both jobs and product], our industrial base that was/is necessary to have a free and independent country.
Total isolation is bad . What is much worse is running around the world trying to run the country and lives of other people while your own is neglected.
Most of the time we are trying to protect the interests and checkbooks of those businesses who invested in the future of those that hate us instead of their own country.