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Ah, but what about the employers who are blatantly hiring these people without regard to our immigration laws? What about the employers who do not go through the proper channels? You cannot have illegal immigrants without people who are willing to hire them. The labor system of the US is as much to blame for its "illegalism" as you might want to blame the immigrants for being "illegal," when in reality they are responding to a demand. They are the supply for the labor demand that is very clear in the US.

If I was going to say that there is a "problem" related to this topic in the US, I would say the problem is with the entire immigration system, not just with illegals. The whole damn thing is broken. So I could surely say that there is perhaps a system-wide crisis related to immigration policy and its enforcement in the US, as well as a nativist backlash that only makes things worse... but I cannot say that there is an "illegal" problem. That is only one piece of a very large and complicated puzzle.

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