I wanted to add one more point: Our immigration system seems like it's written to benefit people who benefit from cheap immigrant labor or immigration lawyers

I wanted to add one more point: Our immigration system seems like it's written to benefit people who benefit from cheap immigrant labor or immigration lawyers who charge good money the help immigrants navigate an artificially complex immigration system. Both of these groups actively lobby our government to keep the status quo. I also wouldn't be surprised if they hired public relations firms to make sure the discussion about immigration is never productive. It's not hard to to chum up up the waters with ethnic and race baiting to get both sides riled up. It's classic divide and conquer. Let's not feed it.