Current immigration laws make it nearly impossible for most Mexicans to legally immigrate unless they have family in the US that are citizens.Thankfully, no American citizen needs to live like that. Yes, I know if we just did away with minimum wage, food stamps, welfare, Medicaid, and those other social programs, no American would turn down any job. America would be fully employed, but I what cost.I once went on a journey up and down the California central valley in search of the best Mexican bar food in California. We stopped at every little dingy town we ran into. I have no idea as to how you would get American workers to move to those areas and live in those shacks the Mexicans live in.
I remember reading Steinbeck's books about the depression era. The people that came to California from other states lived in adverse conditions and would do almost anything for a buck, just like today's illegals. I think it was in Steinbeck's Cannery row, where one white family lived in an old boiler out in a field. White American's are really only a few generations removed from those times. Some jurisdictions even set up road blocks to stop the "illegals" coming in from mid western states that had dust bowl conditions back home.
No one that comes to this country illegally should expect to enjoy all the privileges of a citizens. However, they should be able to earn those privileges.
They can earn them by following the legal process which starts in their own countries not on our soil after entering illegally.
The fact is about half of the illegal immigrants in the US entered the country legally; they just never left.