The chief problem with this is that, under the current conditions, "anti-immigration" is purely used as an identitarian fake cause to divide workers and sow chaos.
The very same capitalist political class which seeks to blame migrant workers for everything also wages war globally, places sanctions all over the world
knowing that their economic war causes mass migration, censors on behalf of "Israel" as it displaces millions from the middle east (ICE is even used to abduct and terrorize people who
are in the US legally for criticizing
"Israel" for its war crimes), actively attacks and skirts labor law and hard won workers' rights, attacks unions even as business cartels buy more capitalist influence through corporate lobbies, and then they gladly hire migrants in order undercut labor domestically even as they use anti-immigrant rhetoric and draconian policing to terrorize migrant communities and keep them afraid while segments of the workers born in the country are unwittingly tricked into doing their bidding.
Here is my solution, and it's very simple:
I. Make it easier to get citizenship legally
II. Give automatic citizenship to any undocumented workers who rat out their employers for hiring them illegally
III. Deport the employers, seize their assets and appoint new company heads, and make the newly citizen workers take mandatory courses on American labor law
If the problem is corrupt businesses favoring undocumented workers, then this will solve it. Furthermore, an end to foreign wars and economic war will massively reduce the number of refugees and economic migrants. Additionally, there should be better public transit between rural and urban areas so that workers from the cities, where there are many unemployed people, can more easily get to the country where there is a large need for manual labor on farms.
Within actual currently existing politics, though, the appeals to oppose immigration are insincere. Where I am concerned, immigration is a neutral value; it's neither bad nor good, and there are valid arguments for or against it. However, when none of those arguments, in the mainstream, are addressing the roots of the problem, and when the material interests of the political actors are aligned with those who are exploiting the current situation, there is no advantage to me pretending that the programme of mass surveillance
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