> Actually there are at least ten million with no legal standing in the country at all.
Except they form an important part of the economy, and they’re here because the government has implicitly allowed and supported that for decades.
That’s not an accident, either. It’s provided a source of cheap labor, who are not enfranchised, so have no political representation.
In many respects it’s a substitute for slavery. The perpetrators here aren’t the immigrants.