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Isn't a major part of the problem our inability to figure out just who is legal and who's illegal? What I can't figure out is why we have to (a) cater to someone's unwillingness to learn English [after all, what European country would bend over backward for English-speaking immigrants?], and; (b) why do we have to support seven-ways-from-Sunday a woman who came over the border to have a "citizen" baby while she herself is not a US citizen? And why do we owe illegal kids an education and healthcare when we can't guarantee a competitive standard of education (and in some cases, healthcare access) for our own citizens' children?

You're right. Nobody has a grip on the total number of illegals in the country and that's never going to change (almost all of the savages in 9/11 were here illegally in the sense that they'd overstayed their student or other visas). There are estimates of between 8 and 12 million illegals in the country, but I would be the true number is closer to 20 million. You're here legally if you have a valid VISA or Greencard. Otherwise, you're here illegally and should be deported.

(i) The practice of government and business going bi-lingual is truly insane, but the multi-culurists have been at this for decades, so it shouldn't shock anyone, (ii) there are federal laws and Supreme Court decisions that require healthcare and education to all people, whether legal or illegal, so there's little individual states can do about it.

As an aside there's nothing in statute or the constitution that grants someone born here automatic citizenship.

Unlike most countries in Europe, which we mistakenly think is going Arabic, the US's interpretation of citizenship is not an ethnic or blood concept.