While the nascent Trump administration and a large band of tea-party Republicans might feel like they’re finally straightening out America’s immigration quagmire, they’re rapidly making a bad situation much worse – and refusing to admit the obvious.

This mess is why Congress and the White House previously came so close to enacting comprehensive immigration reform. It’s the only thing that makes sense.

For decades, the problem of illegal immigration has been primarily about jobs, and Trump’s forays into the morass ignores that. Despite all the heated rhetoric and emotional arguments targeting both sides of this thorny issue, there is a growing cadre of inconvenient facts:

? There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, and their stories and circumstances are astoundingly varied. Officials estimate greater Aurora is home to about 130,000 illegal immigrants.

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