I hear you. It's just that the deck is stacked higher against any kind of draconian action like many here are advocating.
A fence, sure. But no genuine action against employers will happen unless you want your corner supermarket to close it's produce market for a couple of years while a few million people are hired and moved to a couple of valleys in California.
The alternative is a guest worker program, and that's probably the only thing that will really work and keep things "legal". Any other option will be skirted by lawbreakers on every side, and this problem will continue and get worse.
I want to see these people made legal, so they can feel free to come out of the shadows and be real americans. Until then, they will never assimilate.
We have to roll out the legal "welcome mat" (not the figurative Great Society some have brought up here), or they will stay in their mexican culture forever.
You're not merely a defeatist. You're nuts.
Again your are blind. First off, the expensive produce doesnt hold water one bit, yes, it may be 20-25% more expensive in some cases, but not the dramatic price increses that simple minded people put forth(example, a picker whop makes $5 who picsks 4 heads of lettuce an hour labor cost per head would be 2 cents, it it was $15 hr, it would be 6 cents, big whoop). In any event, if its that bad, we can import produce, and if farms go out of business, the cost is well worth it because it would reduce the cost on t axpayers for social services that illegals use.
As for assimilation, the 86 amnesty was a disaster in this area as well. The immigrants from this amnesty have yet to assimilate all that well.