I just want to be me, Christopher - American. This country has changed remarkably, I sometimes don't recognize it as the one I grew up in, and I like LEGAL immigrants, the ones who play be the rules. I have very little else but citizenship and the Constitution as armor in this world, and I won't let cheaters take American jobs, homes, and lives, including mine, ever.
My great-grandparents probably said the same thing when your great-grandparents came over here, whether they were legal or not. I don't have any problem with legal immigration myself, but sometimes people tend to equate all Hispanics with illegal aliens and then start disparaging the whole culture. My husband is Hispanic, a LEGALLY naturalized American citizen and veteran, has no accent whatsoever, and just because of his name, people give him grief over the phone tell him they want to talk to a "regular American", or even more absurdly, to "someone who speaks English", without even realizing they're talking to someone who speaks better English than they do.