Evidence clearly shows that the root cause of illegal immigration is that our legal system does not allow sufficient people to fill our economic, humanitarian, and family needs.
There are two dominant narratives about immigrants. One is that immigrants are villains: they’re here to hurt you, steal your job, threaten your safety, and undermine your precious culture. The other is the victim narrative: immigrants are poor, huddled masses that deserve our compassion, even if it costs us to welcome them. The villain narrative is very familiar to everyone who follows politics, even tangentially. It’s the basic platform of some political parties in many countries around the world. The victim narrative is very moral, but it’s a little bit of a weak argument because it doesn’t stir people’s passions as much as the villain narrative does. The evidence very clearly tells us that immigrants are neither villains nor victims.
