It goes way beyond opportunity in this country. We're passing out benefits of citizenship to those who come here illegally. It goes way beyond the prospect of job opportunities. We have pretty much established a second tier of ILLEGAL citizenship in this country complete with all the rights to social services/benefits that are meant for LEGAL residents and citizens.
Technology could also cut the other way. Fear of a possible future Orwellian police state cannot paralyze us into doing nothing.
We need to secure our borders NOW. Prosecute the scum that are breaking the law and hiring illegals NOW. Deport NOW, start by rounding them up at their protests.
What gets me is that twenty years from now, we'll probably be paying "reparations" to all of these illegals. Because, of course, it's unfair that they had to pay a coyote and endure such an arduous journey through the desert. They even had to crap in some greedy landowner's back yard.
I hear alot of people saying that there are so many illegals that they could not possibly be deported. Strictly speaking those people have no way of supporting their claims. There are cases in US history that suggest the opposite. For example, Operation Wetback successfully deported approximately one million illegal Mexican immigrants in the space of almost a year, though it has often been criticized for its heavy handed enforcement of the law. Thats not bad for a program that was going on without the sophisticated technology of today.