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doj: The illegal immigrant has to live somewhere, use public roads and other services, school their kids, etc. When you provide jobs to illegal immigrants, you profit while imposing these costs on other citizens.

How are the costs “imposed” in this case different from the costs “imposed” by hiring anybody who has to use government roads and services to get to your house? How are they different from the costs “imposed” by you personally when you use these government services?

Are you operating on the (false) assumption that only citizens (or perhaps citizens and documented immigrants) pay taxes?

doj: One of the jobs of government is to prevent this sort of behavior at least in the cases where aggregate utility decreases.

The easiest way for them to prevent freeloading on taxpayers is to stop subsidizing schools and roads and other services. Trying to minimize or contain freeloading by taking it out on immigrants who aren’t, after all, responsible for the subsidies is not a solution; it’s just a diversion, and one that happens to harm a lot of innocent people.