Why do you think that people who are not citizens of their resident state are automatically "illegal"? The European Union has made great strides with their expe

Why do you think that people who are not citizens of their resident state are automatically "illegal"? The European Union has made great strides with their experiments in allowing laborers to freely flow across borders, and we now know that it is a boon to economies when labor is allowed to migrate freely. I mean, guessing that you're living in the USA, you right now are benefiting massively from a system of migrant labor [0] involving the flow of people across the USA-Mexico borders. (And also the USA-Canada border, although somehow I imagine that that bothers you less.) It seems short-sighted to consider laborers as unfit for the job market just because they have a different country of origin, and it is almost common sense that one should pay taxes where one makes their income and pays their rent and groceries; it is at least economic sense and part of how most countries design their tax systems. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_worker#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_worker#United_States