Illegal immigration is a problem in the United States. A serious problem. It's a problem that has great economic implications for our future of our nation. With this in mind, we have to examine the roots of our illegal immigration problem otherwise we are treating the symptoms without understanding the epidemic. In which case, we're all dead.
The roots of this illegal immigration epidemic, as with all epidemics, lay in its history. Mexico had its richest and most productive lands stolen from it by.... us. The U.S. annexed California (currently the 5th largest economy in the WORLD) and Texas (currently the 10th largest economy in the WORLD) by military conquest. We outright stole it in the same way Saddam tried to steal Kuwait. The only differences are, Kuwait had been a part of Iraq for a very long time until someone in London carved off the southern tip of the land richest in oil reserves and setting up a monarchy friendly to the British crown before handing a depreciated Iraq back to the Iraqis and this aggression DID stand.
We stole the gold, the oil, and the bountiful farm land because we beat the living shit out of them and took it. It's as simple as that. Now, the children of this impoverished nation, Mexico come begging at our door to cut our lawn for minimum wage, and your solution to right this wrong is to build a wall to ensure they remain impoverished while we split the booty.
Just keep this in mind when speaking of what's "legal"... because we are on the wrong side of that Wall.
The only long term solution to the immigration problem is to allow Mexico and our Southern neighbors to economically develop free from American influence and invasion. Then, these people will not be dying to come here.
This is the Truth about illegal immigration.