Why is this a difficult concept? I thought this was easily self evident. I wasn't even born in America (I was born in india, naturalized US citizen) and this truth is very plain to me. The very idea of what America is, is enshrined within the founding document of the nation.

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Why is this a difficult concept? I thought this was easily self evident. I wasn't even born in America (I was born in india, naturalized US citizen) and this truth is very plain to me.

The very idea of what America is, is enshrined within the founding document of the nation. America is not a collection ideas or of corporations like Amazon, Tesla, Space X, Netflix etc. as Elon Musk and Silicon Valley Tech bros would have you to believe. They look at America as a purely economic zone of opportunity. They see people as economic units which can be freely interchanged with foreign ones for cheaper labor. Both illegal and legal immigration have been exploited by corporations to drive down American wages and displace the American workers.

How does being legal make something okay if the net outcome is identical to if it were done illegally?

Why does an American citizen need to compete with the whole world economically? How about Americans compete with other Americans and may the best man or woman get the best economic opportunity they are suited to fill?