Look at all the pro-illegal stuff that’s passed in CA and other places. Free health care, instate tuition, drivers licenses. I think there is a certain level of luring there.
Well, Aristotle said that the people who own the wealth of a country, own the government. e do have mixed government; public opinion, breadly speaking, does check the powers of the elite, but like the Roman Republic, we are an oligarchy, and the oligarchy wants cheap labor. And of course they are willing to let the rest of us subsidize that labor.