a seconds pause....
What disturbs me about much of the rhetoric on all sides that it is emotional not based in facts or logic. Immigration (including illegal) creates both benefits and problems.
But Bush has to use a euphemism for his amnesty program because the anti-amnesty people cannot deal rationally and logically with the topic. Mention the word amnesty and (most) get all emotional and illogical.
The same is true on the other side. The socialists who want to create a new dependent class... dependent on socialist leaders ... will not admit that (most) illegal immigrants are not mistreated, nor oppressed and do not need a white liberal (or brown liberal) rescuing them. They are doing quite well, thank you, in finding jobs with which they are happy and buying a house and having babies (my wife is in the baby clothing business if you hadn't figured that out already).
What did your wife think about the protests?
For all your high-horse rhetoric, you haven't staked out a position of your own. Afraid of being called "irrational" if you were to actually do something so pedestian as express an opinion?
For my part, amnesty for illegals is inexcusable. If you want to call that irrational, go ahead, but simply calling it that doesn't make it so.