>You do understand that by holding these people out, you're just as well "allowing Mexicans to die in the streets", right?
What about Africans? What are you personally doing to help Africans who are starving? What about people starving in various places in Asia? How is it the US's responsibility to take care of every single indigent person in the whole world? And how would we, when there's 7.5B people on earth, and the US only has 310M? Why are the Mexicans more important than the Africans? And why isn't the Mexican government being called on to take care of their own people?
>These people aren't being forcibly captured and taken into the country: they come of their own will, they work for pay (such as they can find)
Yeah, they used to say the same thing about indentured servants. People willingly became indentured.
>and they are always free to leave.
And do what? Starve? That's not much of a choice.
>The whole point of legalizing immigration is to ensure that said labor force is not quite as cheap (since min. wage would apply and could actually be enforced),
And how does that help? Walmart pays minimum wage, and taxpayers are subsidizing them because Walmart's workers all have welfare and Medicaid. So why are you so interested in making taxpayers subsidize cheap labor for big corporations anyway?