Because it can be, and nearly every administration has a ‘tough on illegal immigration’ stance - because the US is so desirable to go to.

A good Great Depression economic reset + insane facist government will reset that a little - but it will still be better than a huge number of places on the globe. Even if the gov’t targets immigrants.

A huge number of places with massive populations of people who would love to come over.

Are you saying the volume they handle precludes competence?