You've been writing good posts since this came up, especially those dealing with crapweasels pretending to be conservatives.
That said, I DO have faith in our bicameral form of government and the recent wakeup call our usually clueless citizens are apparently responding to. I don't know what generation you belong to, but the most recent ones have been subjected to a regimen of pablum, lies and adherence to authority that George Orwell would say "I told you so" if he were still around. The youth live in mortal fear that they'll be found out for having original thoughts that vary from their teachers and, by extension and peer pressure, most of the fellow sheeple around them.
I can't indulge in the usual pessimism when so many conditioned tax-monkeys are breaking their mental chains and demanding an accounting. Americans are actually taking an interest in their own destiny and are daring to challenge the authority figures (the reps) that they've been taught to respect without question.
This is good.
I was born in the late 1940s.
In the '50s, the Great American Dream reigned supreme. Things were good, and getting better, and always would.
After that, though, the reality of what was happening set in, and with it, a cynicism -- increasing as the situation continued its downward spiral.
Now, at this point, I am convinced in my heart of hearts that the "movers and shakers" have decided that the illegals are the "new slaves", to work the "new Plantation Economy" -- and this time, there's no Honest Abe to screw up the plan.
It's not that they're "trying to fix the problem" -- it's that they WANT it -- because to them, it's NOT "a problem" -- it's a solution.
Telling DC to get rid of the illegals is tantamount to telling The Confederacy to give up on "The Institution of Slavery."