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Nobel Prizes are not handed out to illegals, they were just immigrants. Most first generation legal immigrants to America are very ambitious.
Most illegals have little respect for our laws and country. Like many here on work visas, they even dislike America, but are here to "make a packet of money" (as one Brit on a visa told me once), with plans to go back home. The illegals who stay send a lot of money home. And, their community shows no signs of assimilation. There are 2nd generation latinos here who speak little English.
Now that the border is a possible conduit for terrorists, the federal government cannot afford to turn a blind eye.
It is the responsibility of the federal government to protect our borders, not the states. So, the funding should be from the federal level. Right now, the states are bearing most of the burden of health, education, police, prison and welfare. Finally, add in the lost tax revenue, because illegals are paid under the table, and do indeed take jobs that unemployed Americans could have had.