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Coyote is one who facilitates illegal immigration for money on the Southern border and abuses the immigrants in the process: Narrow definition of coyote.

Broad definition is one who facilitate illegal immigration. I’d estimate that there are over 25 million American citizens who have done this. And I am one of them.

Some of the anti-illegal immigrant voices don’t realize how pervasive and inter-twined illegal immigration is with both citizens and legal immigrants. How intertwined it is with churches, schools, businesses, families.

For example, the 11 million illegals live somewhere, paying rent or mortgage. If they were all deported, that would mean 11 million not paying the rent or mortgage. without paying the rent the landlord can’t pay his mortgage. It would mean 11 million not buying food, gasoline, etc. Those businesses would decline and more mortgages would not be paid.

And consider the employment situation. Fast food would be unable to fined enough replacement employees ...at any minimum wage. There just aren’t enough of us who want to do that job. It isn’t just the money, I’ve known illegals in construction making $20-30/hr and more. If they went back to Mexico there would be nobody to replace them. I’ve seen employers try to hire construction workers out of government jobs programs. They just don’t want to work that hard...or get dirty.

I realize the above is “pragmatic” and avoids the morality that the illegals are guilty of a mis-demeanor equivalent to a parking ticket; What they did is illegal. Of course, pre-1920s it was not illegal. So the immorality is not in entering the US without permission. The immorality is solely in failing to play mother-may-I with the bureaucracy.