We’re right next door to Mexico, so it’s logical that the majority of immigrants, illegal or otherwise, would be from Mexico.
The biggest illegal group in New York City a few years ago was Irish, but they returned home when the Irish economy picked up. Mexicans also do not want to stay here, and one of the big problems that most US employers have is that once Mexicans get enough money to go home and buy a little business, that’s exactly what they do.
We need some way to let them come here, work and go home if they want, or come here, apply for citizenship if they like it here, and stay and be good Americans.
That’s what most of them want. What most “anti-immigration” posters on FR want is for Hispanic immigrants to be vaporized as soon as the set foot over the border. One of the problems, just from a practical point of view, is that this has driven this group into the arms of the Dems, who were already out there handing out their “dead and illegal voter” bonuses and now have even legals totally on the Dem side. We blew it.