ping to the facts
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. "
I agree that they should be protected according to the law and get due process, but my own opinion is that the two views (prosecuting illegal aliens and protecting illegal aliens) are not mutually exclusive. If the illegals are to provided with equal protection under the law, and due process, which I believe they should be, then that also means that they are bound to obey and follow and respect those same laws. Equal protection cuts both ways...we are entitled to be protected from their illegal activities.
The fact is...what they are doing in being here is illegal and they need to be prosecuted according to the law, equally just as if someone were committing illegal acts against them.
IMHO, they need to be deported and told to come in through the legally proscribed means. They need to be registered as someone who attempted to enter illegally and informed that in repeat offenses they may well be incarcerated and put to work benefitting this country, before they are deported again...and so on and so forth. But that is just my opinion on the matter.
In my estimation, the arguement that the issue of illegality is a non-issue in this debate is demonstrably and patently wrong. It has everything to do with it. According to the 14th amendment and the constitution, those illegals are responsible for their acts and must be held accountable for their illegalities precisely because there is equal protection under the law.
Gotta go.