It's time to break the addiction to cheap labor…Two groups keep defending large scale illegal immigration and both miss the same systems problem. One side pushes rapid demographic change and dismisses concerns about cohesion, culture, and political power. The other side is addicted to cheap labor. Business owners treat illegal hiring as a victimless crime. Of course a business wants lower costs. That is rational short term. The mistake is treating the quarterly spreadsheet as the whole picture. They are not looking at the country their children will inherit. They are not connecting the open border to longer emergency room waits, schools that keep struggling no matter the spending, or housing their kids may never afford. New arrivals and their U.S. born children absorb education, emergency care, and other benefits. Taxpayers cover those costs. The public bill often offsets or exceeds the private savings from cheap labor. Lower the fiscal burden and taxes could drop. Higher take home pay and less wage pressure would make legal workers more available. The labor shortage claim looks different once you stop socializing the costs. Some industries say Americans will not do the work. With higher wages and better conditions they often will. The system creates the dependency then uses it as proof the system is necessary. This is not victimless. It is deferred and socialized. Short term profits stay private. Long term costs of higher taxes, strained services, and a lower trust country go to the next generation.