My senator defended illegal immigration for economic reasons: illegal immigrants work well below minimum wage, don’t pay income taxes, and don’t have access to litigation, so they’re useful for doing hard, labor intensive or dangerous work like picking crops and stuff. This in turn keeps the price of US-grown foods, etc lower.

To me, that defense is suspect. I live in the south, where slavery was once defended on similar grounds.

Why should living be allowed to be illegal?