The Case for Illegal Immigration

On 4th February Donald Trump delivered what may be his last State of the Union. He is facing a tough election later in the year and it comes as no surprise that his address was chock full of themes to get his base frothing at the mouth, among which was illegal immigration. The illegal immigrant is one of the favourite hobgoblins of the alt-right mind and it has salience with many otherwise sensible people. The idea of the queue-jumper offends many people’s sense of ‘fair play’, but if fair play is the concern then one has to seriously ask: is the current way in which the world is structured ‘fair’?