Don't we need more immigrants?

[Misfire]

Opponents of illegal immigration have several prongs to their agenda. One is to "secure the border' building a wall and posting guards. Another is to punish businesses for hiring cheap immigrant labor. Another is to deport illegals back to their home nations.

Ironically, the majority of those opposed to illegal immigration claim to be conservatives--that is, they also claim to oppose things like minimum wage laws, protectionism, and tariffs, and support outsourcing operations to nations where they can hire cheaper labor.

Much of the immigration rhetoric deals with "securing the border" as part of the war on turr, but why does border security have to be bundled with what is essentially a tariff on foreign labor? Shouldn't the supposedly conservative border security advocates also get behind real immigration reform that would allow business owners to purchase labor at true market prices much like they support purchasing it overseas?