[Age of Reason]

Why is it that the same Democrats who oppose deporting illegal immigration and support amnesty . . . also oppose free trade

Probably because free trade between USA and Mexico, flooded Mexico with cheap produce from our factory farms.

Since that cheap USA produce put Mexican farmers out of work, they sneak in here or starve.

So ending free trade would solve the illegal immigrant problem because those Mexican farmers could go back to Mexico to raise crops again.

[1rudeboy]

That’s an interesting approach to foreign policy: we should hamstring the U.S. economy, and specifically the U.S. agricultural sector, so that Mexican peasant farmers might find work peasant farming in Mexico?

[1rudeboy]

I mean, wouldn't it be simpler to build a wall? And what's with the assumption that an employed peasant is likely to be satisfied to remain a peasant, whereas an unemployed peasant will illegally-emigrate to the U.S. in order to better his economic condition? How much more likely to be satisfied?