Lets shift the conversation from blaming the victim, to fixing the structural causes

Good theory, but you need both.

No regime change: right on, but it's the corporatocracy that pushes for both that and illegals' labor. NAFTA: actually reduces the pressure. No subsidy flooding: right on.

Employer sanctions: been in place for years, just not enforced that seriously when they can just de-fund the enforcement.

The REAL fix would be undermining (1) the pressures created by Rome's war on birth control and (2) the corruption and graft in those third-world countries that make it hard for them to live at home. The best measure of true compassion for the illegals would be those two right there.

NAFTA opened the door for more poor trade agreements; it made the problem worse in the 1990s as corn farmers in Mexico could not compete with the cheap US corn that was flooding the markets; they could not compete with the low US corn prices because corn farming is subsidized by the US Gov in America which artificially lowers the US corn prices.

Current Employer sanctions are a slap on the wrist that big companies can afford to pay and still make profits while continuing to hire illegal immigrants. A book that articulates the realities of cheap labour on the US black market is "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market" by Eric Schlosser; he goes into depth about the realities of illegal immigrants being used for farm work in the US, and how some employers hire illegals to pick produce and then call ICE on their own employees to keep from having to pay those workers after the work is done.

We agree regarding the basics of the problem, but once that's down, we have to also agree that joke enforcement only helps those same corporate interests too.