@Mellero47 & @milktree
Whether they are productive or not aside…. Why in the world would we continue to incentivize illegal behavior in a time when nearly/over 10 million people have entered this country illegally in the past few years? Incentivization (is that a word?) is just as much to blame for the governments failure to secure the border.
This is not sustainable.
I agree, "being productive" is at best a red herring, and at worst a deliberate distraction.
Having said that: You can't incentivize someone without agency. It's not like a three year old is thinking, "Hey, if we go to the US now, I'll get to stay and become a cop and then take over the US from the inside"