The whole immigration debate is over-simplified. It’s so easy to lay it all on the undocumented worker - he/she broke the law. But the U.S. is totally complicit. There are enormous financial incentives for them to come, and for big agribusiness to hire them, and to maintain this as the status quo. Heck, it’s our nation’s breadbasket – and what politician is willing to incur the political fallout of rising food prices and angry big growers, by fixing a broken immigration system and stemming the steady stream of cheap labor that provides so much low-cost skilled farm labor?
Trump is. Not just because he doesn’t care about fallout, but also because he doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions. He was elected to lead not read.