Jonathon said:
What is wrong with what they are doing? The country was founded on immigration. Most of us would not be here had there been the "great" federal gov't we have now. People protest; The Million Man March? What was that about anyway? I agree it should be done legally, but is what most of us put in our bodies, "legal"? I support them. If I had a family to support and lived in Mexico, my ass would be coming here. If they come here to work, let them in, just don't sit on your ass!
Correction: this country was founded on legal immigration. It was founded on immigrants who assimilated. Who learned English. Who didn't run around stripping the American flag, turning it upside down, and flying a buzzard flag above it. The Italians learned English. The Germans learned English. The Irish learned to fit in. The Poles learned English. The Russians learned English. They didn't demand special rights. They didn't go flying the flags of their old nations. They didn't demand that this land belonged to them for thousands of years. They never spoke of Reconquista or conquering in the first place. They never spoke of the Gringoes.
There was some unrest in our past, particularly with Irish immigrants. Nothing like this.
You mention this great federal government: what use is that federal government without the rule of law? How great can it possibly be?
As for having a family to support and coming to America, the whole 3rd world would come here if it could. Why should Mexicans get special rights? Why should Mexican be able to cut in front of friends that I have with advanced degrees in Engineering, law, accounting, and finance who could make a contribution to our economy, who speak fluent English, and who love America and have been waiting for years to come here?
You realize that they're the wealthiest nation in Latin America. Giving these illegals amnesty is exactly what the Spanish elite in Mexico wants you to do. Ship out the poor, keep the system corrupt and serving only a few. Sweep away the trash so that they don't have to worry about them rising up against them and can keep things corrupt as always. Then let these minions arrive in America, declare the Reconquists, and maybe reclaim Arizona. All paid for by Americans.
Meanwhile these illegals drive down the wages that Americans would earn. This is particularly true of wages for blacks, who compete for Latinoes for many of these jobs. They drive Americans out of construction, out of landscaping, out of carpentry, out of factories, etc...
Illegal immigration costs this country about 13-billion dollars per year. That excludes what it costs to educate their kids. Nevermind the cultural damage and the balkanization that we are seeing.
Sorry, I think illegal immigrants are doing plenty wrong. And the businesses that hire them are doing even worse.
I guess we all have a voice in this, but I for one am sick and tired of this problem. It's time to fix it.