It's just that "your" national government - particularly during the Klintons/Gore Regime - has seen the rights of foreigners, even ones here as illegal aliens, as outranking those of native-born Americans.
My mother - an elderly, native-born middle-class American - suddenly started getting dun letters from the IRS several years ago, threatening even criminal prosecution if she didn't immediately pay $700+ in back taxes; we took it to her tax lawyer - who called the local "problems resolution office" of the IRS, which replied that she didn't owe anything, to ignore the letters, and that they'd stop in several months. (Eventually they did stop.) During that time, did the INS spend 1% the resources hassling the estimated 700,000 illegal aliens here in North Carolina that the IRS spent hassling my innocent mother? (NO.)
Before Sept. 11, INS would get after illegal aliens - but only on fake-ID stuff, illegals convicted of other felonies, cases instigated by unions, bus lines specializing in moving illegals, or mass-scale hiring of illegals.
IMMIGRATION resource library - with local INS phone numbers coast to coast
Not even that. I was watching a program last night on A & E -- I think it was Crime Story hosted by Bill Kurtis.
The program was about an Egyptian chemist, Sharif Sharif, who was a serial rapist and batterer. He plea bargained once - got no time. He plea bargained a second time -- got 12 years and was out in 5. There were other cases against him, but most of the women he brutalized were afraid to testify against him.
Because he was so brilliant and had money he managed to get his employers to vouch for him. After he was in jail, his business partner decided to contact the INS, as did the sheriff of the county where he was serving time, to get him deported. The INS (this was Miami) refused to get involved. He was released, went to TX where he got a big job with an oil company and started his life of crime and brutality against women again.
The former business partner contacted the new company and they finally chased across the border to Mexico where more than 20 women associated with him turned up dead. Unfortunately, I fell asleep so I don't know the end of the story; but it was obvious that the INS really dropped the ball on this one.