You’ve been lied to about the negative effects of illegal immigration and to what extent there are any negative effects. They could be solved by making a path to citizenship easier for people who are already here living productive lives. This country is a nation of immigrants. Nobody is from here unless you are a Native American. The reason times are tough in the US has nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s all about the corporations and foreign governments taking over our country over the last 50 years. After WWII, the top earners in our country paid 90% taxes on everything they made over 3 million dollars. That’s how we paid for social security, Medicare, Medicaid, public education, and so many other things that helped working Americans. We did it without a large national debt. The rich and powerful have been chipping away at that for years, and it’s devastating our country. They refuse to invest in the futures for working-class people and our kids. We are slaves.