Texas builders were happy to exploit people who they could underpay for their labor due to their precarious position. If we gave immigrants regardless of status workers rights like minimum wage and union protection the new complaint wouldn’t be about deportations, but about how wages are too high right now.

I would not be surprised if there already was a massive cross agency database on most Americans since the Patriot Act.

I think Guantanamo Bay existing for as long as it has shows how much the state cares about such concerns.