It would be wonderful to see protests all over the country from LEGAL immigrants. But unfortunately, the illegal immigrants from Mexico have a built-in advantage: a good many of them have legal families living here. So millions of citizens here have a personal interest in this issue.
Another problem is that too many employers and individuals have been spoiled by all the cheap, hard--working labor. Some that speak the loudest on this issue probably have a gardner or handyman or housekeeper who they hadn't looked too closely at.
Culturally, Texas and the Southwest were inhabited by the Spanish before the Mayflower. Spanish has always been a second unofficial language of Texas and many parts of California. Many people here are learning Spanish. Couple that with the larger birthrates to Hispanics than to Euro-Americans, and the country is going to be Mexamerica within a couple of generations.
You had to do it the hard way because your ethnic group here just didn't have enough political pull.
There are millions of mixed families with some legal and some illegal. Not that I have any sympathy. Lawbreaking is law breaking. I don't see any tax amnesty for anyone but I see hack politicians sucking up to illegal aliens and Hispanic illegal aliens slinging bullshit about how they have a right to be here
They know an amnesty when they see one!