Here's the problem - and I have specific, personal experience via a friend of my daughter's. Her friend - a smart, hardworking, devout kid - is brought across the border at two. Finds out at seventeen, when he asks his mom to sign his drivers license papers, that he's illegal. Not looking for aid, but an honor student with college dreams, he's denied entry at any price because, in this state, that's how it works (different state to state.) Now you can say it's his parent's fault, he should go back, etc. But he doesn't even speak Spanish! What exactly is he to go back to? This is a kid who could make a real contribution - as a teacher, a doctor, what have you - he's got the brains and the character. But because of his parents choice, he's stymied. So we punish the innocent? Posters, stop your knee-jerk, and to my mind frankly unAmerican anti immigrant rants, and think it through. The system as it is doesn't work. It's time to fix it. Hatch is right.
So what?
There are lots of people in the world who are f*cked because they come from turd world socialist cesspools. Why on earth should this particular benefit burglar get to rape money from my children?
Because your daughter knows him?
My future daughter-in-law came illegally to LA with her parents when she was nine. She tells a very funny story about how her father and uncle went out during the LA riots in 19909?) and brought home televisions they'd looted from stores. Perhaps this says more about poverty than legal citizenship.
But her parents still cannont speak English because they work and live in an environment that allows them to function with Spanish only. They still consider themselves Mexicans.
She is the only one in the family that has obtained US citizenship--but she is properly attending college as a citizen, not as a foreign national residing in her state.
Mexico doesn't cut Americans any slack about their immigration laws or work permits.