Both our major political parties have worked hard to normalize the idea of illegal labor as some kind of "act of love" humanitarian endeavor. In fact it's just a way to keep wages low for the business interests that fund both sides of the aisle in the kabuki theater that is the US election process.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.