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Yes, and Trump has been trying to slash legal immigration. I resent listening to people who make a huge deal out of illegal immigration, ask why immigrants cannot just do it legally, but don't bother to look into just how hard and uncertain doing it legally is.
A useful conversation about immigration must take account not merely of principle, but of the real-world behavior of people in response to what the law is regardless of whether one thinks their behavior is justified, or 'right', or better characterized by some other moral sentiment. Any solution must be pragmatic. Anything else and you end up with more problems than you would otherwise have.
One of the biggest reasons our legal structure and enforcement apparatus (not just in immigration) is so inefficient is because politicians get votes by shouting about who is right and wrong instead of reaching a pragmatic solution.
Stamping your feet and condemning people is pretty much guaranteed to provide a sub-optimal result. It may feel good to condemn them, but unless we fix up the legal immigration process we're going to have more illegals then we otherwise would have, wall or no wall.
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So, yeah, they shouldn't be here illegally. But they are here illegally and they're going to keep coming. We need to move far past "but they're wrong!" if we really do want to make sure less of them come here illegally.
The above bolded is absolutely on target; but given the polarization of our political system and Nation, I do not see this happening anytime soon.