“The tragedy of illegal immigration is that it did not have to be this way. Legal, measured, meritocratic, and diverse immigration leads to rapid assimilation and Americanization and enriches the country culturally and economically.

Its antithesis—illegal, mass, non-meritocratic, and non-diverse immigration—hinders the melting pot. It fuels tribalism, while incurring vast costs in social services to ensure some sort of parity for those from impoverished southern Mexico and Central America. The wages of our citizen working poor and their access to needed social services are not helped by thousands of new arrivals without legality and English”.

https://www.hoover.org/research/diversity-illegal-immigration

The Diversity Of Illegal Immigration

by  Victor Davis Hanson – Professor of Classics at Cal State, and Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution