Let's say I break into your house. When you find me in the house yo tell me to leave and I say: I made the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors... all the things you don't like to do.
Except when I broke in (to your house) I'm honest and hardworking so I want to stay. Actually, not only must you LET me stay, but you have to add me to your health insurance policy and provide benefits for my family members, too (my husband will do your yardwork since, except for breaking in) he is honest and hardworking.
If you try to call the police or force me out I'll call my friends and they will come over here and surround your house and picket you until you see the light and let me stay.
It's only right because, after all, you have a nicer house than I do and I'm only trying to better myself by moving into your house.
And, what a deal this is (for me) because I can live in your house and contribute a fraction of what it will cost for my keep and there is nothing you can do about it withou being accused of sefishness, prejudice and be anti-housebreaker.
If this sounds reasonable to you then grab a sign and go picket with the rest of the illegals, but if it sounds insane then call your senator and congressman and enlighten them since they are stumbling in the dark and really need enlightening by all of us.
There have been people right here at FR against "legal" immigration too.
I love analogies. That one was brilliant!
I liked your "house-cleaning" analogy too, but I objected to very first premise: that I was the one who does not understand the difference between "legal" and "illegal" immigration - so, I'm not ignoring it. There are people here at FR who want to stop all the illegal house-cleaning as well as all LEGAL house-cleaning. Apart from that, what I would object to in my private home is very different from what I would object to in my country as a whole. The reason(s) I have walls in my private house, for instance, are very different - sometimes the opposite - from why this country should have walls. Does that help?