It's called immigration, and it's how US was created. You have more than enough free space in the US for several times the current population.
You mean to say you want to call it that. But that immigration was non-consensual, and as we see now, mostly peaceful only because it was not resisted.
> it's how US was created
And how did that work out for the previous inhabitants?
That immigration is desired by all these red state agribusiness entities that receive no punishment. Curious that we're deploying thousands of soldiers to a blue state to deport... 100 people so far? When they could much more easily go after the people paying these migrants under the table. They wouldn't come here if they couldn't make money doing so. Trump is clearly a television personality and lives for the drama. Makes sense why Obama and Biden managed to deport more people during their terms.
I don't know how effective Trump is at border control, but to imply previous administrations (Republicans included) were hostile to immigration, legal or illegal, is laughable.
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole_for_Cubans%2C_Haitians%...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_Un...
[4] https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-seeks-court-block-biden-...
Given the federal government is actively revoking and eliminating massive amounts of visas, they are essentially creating "illegal" immigrants with the stroke of a pen.
If people actually cared about stopping people entering the country illegally, it would be as easy as extending all resident visas and these communities would be happy to turn on the bad actors they moved here to run from.
Overstaying an expired visa is illegal bro. What world are we living in?
https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/other-resources/unlawf...
The government can change the terms of the visas on a whim. If you've lived in the US with your family for decades and they decide to deny a renewal with no recourse, what realistically are you going to do?
The reality is that most people are illegal simply because both politicians benefited from slapping the label on people for so long. You get the benefit of immigration, but you can pretend to be tough on it, and also deprive large swaths of your working class from expensive benefits and rights.
The existing laws are unfair, unjust, and immoral. Lumping in a huge portion of the working class together with actual drug runners and criminals is an intentional and preventable error.
I learned it from the US itself, and how it treats the rest of the world. Legality is optional and subject to political considerations, and desire for money and power.