As a European I never understood how people can be opposed to Trumps decision to kick out illegal immigrants . They entered the country illegally , they do not have any right to be in the US , so why don ' t you want them to be kicked out ? Probably not going to be a popular viewpoint on rnews , but there are a few reasons for me . The first and most important to me is the fact that these are people . Just like you and me . I can ' t justify saying well they were born on the other side of this arbitrary line so fuck them they deserve a shit life . If I was in their position , I would be doing the same thing . As would a lot of the people that are so vehemently opposed to immigration . As a big believer in personal responsibility I can ' t help but admire someone that is willing to risk their lives and leave everything they know behind in hopes for a better life . As someone who has grown up around Mexican immigrants , both legal and undocumented , as a whole you are not going to find a harder working group of people . Secondly , as an educated and skilled worker , I benefit economically from undocumented labor . It makes my goods cheaper . It is not clear what the overall economic effect of illegal immigration is , but at worst it is slightly negative . It is nowhere near as bad as opponents would have you believe . Some studies show positive effects , but it one of those things that depending on who does the study the outcome will be how they want it to be . Going back to personal responsibility , if you are an American citizen and an undocumented worker took your job you SERIOUSLY fucked up somewhere in life . This part always confuses me because a lot of the people I know that are vehemently opposed to undocumented immigrants are also huge proponents of personal responsibility and everyone on welfare is lazy . I am perfectly OK that these jobs go to undocumented workers for shit pay so that I can have cheaper goods . Do I feel bad that undocumented workers are being exploited and paid terrible wages ? Yes . But I understand that it is still better than their alternative .