Right. The reason the Democrats will not address this issue, and the reason the Republicans fail to really solve it, is because the economy of the US benefits from the status quo.
The illegal workers get to be exploited for sub minimum wages and illegal working conditions and are willing to come and put up with it to send money home to their families. Their labor benefits everybody. If the Democrats, or whomever, took serious steps to introduce some kind of immigration reform to make this all legal, they couldn't really do it without enforcing existing labor standards which would mean they cannot be exploited as much as before. This would be bad for big business so they block any such effort.
And likewise the Republicans only pretend to do something about it and use it as a wedge issue to get out their voters.
So the whole thing is gross and corrupt and nobody does anything about it. And we'll see what happens with this latest ICE thing.
The kind of ridiculous thing is the asylum seekers, they seem to be the ones who are mostly get shit on through all of this. They are ones who get bussed away from the border by Abbott. I think they are ones who are going to be driven out of the country ultimately. The corporations don't care about them. But they aren't even illegal immigrants, they are following the laws.