I'm actually one of the few people (or not), that wishes to go back to the free-banking era...although that would involve a change in mental paradigms to get us there. No welfare, no SS,...nothing but Constitutional needs funded by indirect taxation e.g tariff, excise, etc.
When we actually knew the essence of freedom.
Fundamentally, I fear that many of these illegals favor socialism, and millions of them spell the end of liberty in America or Civil conflicts. I'd like to stick to our needs and do it much slower pace than we are doing it now. I guess we're past that stage in some regards, and I'm not one to think mass deportation would be done or should. I just don't think we should give in and bend-over--so to speak. There's many fantasy-minded socialists just waiting to destroy the one country that made an example for all.
A closet libertarian - right here on Free Republic. That makes at least two of us. I agree with you.