When you have a working population of 11 million people living in your country for decades, they can no longer be called 'illegal'. Who are the bigots kidding? These people are there as a slave labor class. No status, no protection, doing the menial work that citizens refuse to do, for years and years. As the weakest and most vulnerable members of the society, they make an easy target when a scape goat is needed, and when the population gets ugly. Stories like this are the result. Is the USA safer now?  No. What's the benefit? There is none. How bad is this going to get? No one knows.