I think you are insufficiently cynical to understand immigration reform. The current state of immigration reform, where politicians demand (and are getting) in

I think you are insufficiently cynical to understand immigration reform. The current state of immigration reform, where politicians demand (and are getting) increased enforcement without any expansion of a legal right to work in the U.S., works great for companies in labor-intensive industries. On the one hand, you get a workforce willing to get paid less than the legal minimum, and you don't have to pay things like worker's comp, social security, etc. On the other, enforcement has increased so much that those underpaid workers live in constant fear of being deported or having their families split apart, so they don't report their employers breaking the law. For companies that have access to that pool of precarious labor, the situation is great, and they've invested a lot in not changing anything.