Yes...aside from the illegal immigration policy, I think that our current immigration policy (particularly the 1965 Immigration Act as amended and supplmented) is extremely bad policy. The '65 Act was passed (and dramatically altered the immigration policy this nation had very successfully been following since the 1920's) amidst lies, naive, misguided predictions of its effects and that destructive leftist Great Society, multicultural ideology of the 1960's.
So Teddy Kennedy assured Americans that, even if we passed the '65 Act, "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually." Former Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, claimed that "the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much." Of course, today, well over a million legal immigrants do flood our cities every year...about 5 times the number of immigrants enter America every year as did in 1964 (and the number grows every year).
Senator Robert Kennedy predicted a total of 5,000 immigrants from India; his successor as US Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach, predicted 8,000. Of course, we now have over 1000x the number of Indian immigrants that Kennedy (deceptively or foolishly) predicted. Senator Hiram Fong, of Hawaii, stated that Asians"will never reach 1 percent of the population." Of course, the number of Asians far exceeds that number.
Interesting when one looks at the Congressional debates around the '65 Immigration Act...it appears that, at least in the context of debating immigration policy, people were able to talk about demographics and cultural considerations without being called a racist...
Time to halt all immigration for a while and then, roll back the 1960's multicultural experiments that have done so much damage to this country and return to a sensible level of immigration based on the national origins standards we used for the first half of this century.
I suspect that many of the anti-illegals are just hiding behind the word "illegal" to mask their opposition to all imigrants; others use it simply as a vehicle to criticize President Bush.