Three things:
1. In your entire remarks you seem to forget that they we are talking about ILLEGAL ALIENS.
2. Anyone who passes your easy 'no disease, willing to work, obey the law' criteria can come? A billion of them?
3. Your forbears were not only not illegal aliens, they didn't march en masse through the streets carrying hostile communist signs and waving the banner of a foreign state.
Who shouldn't, for the most part, be considered illegal, IMO.
2. Anyone who passes your easy 'no disease, willing to work, obey the law' criteria can come? A billion of them?
Sure.
3. Your forbears were not only not illegal aliens, they didn't march en masse through the streets carrying hostile communist signs and waving the banner of a foreign state.
One of my grandfathers was a socialist lathe operator. If he didn't actually carry left-wing signs through the streets, he probably at least threatened to at one time or another. Lots of European immigrants did. And while he didn't exactly enter as an illegal alien, he did lie about his age -- though that was more to escape the Latvian (or Lithuanian -- I forget which; he was born in one and fled the other) draft than any other reason.
But his stepson became a Republican straight out of Brooklyn (beating his casual acquaintance Norman Podhoretz to it by a few decades) and his step-grandson is me.