I agree.

There's the self-interest argument as well. Immigrants self-select for
traits we want in our country: a willingness to take a calcuated risk
for gain, an ambition to get ahead and improve their lives and their
childrens, a drive to do better.

It's no accident that with each peak of immigration into the US there's
been an economic rise in innovation, business formation, and employment
in the long term over the previously existing trends. The less we put
legal or social strictures on immigration the more true this is.

Besides, making things illegal just attracts the criminals - immigrants
wouldn't be smuggled if it were easier to get in. Clearly immigrants
are doing work that most of us don't want to do - otherwise there'd be
no demand for them and they wouldn't be coming in.

-Malcolm Teas