There are more positive things to say about immigrants than there are negative. There are few good things to say about illegal aliens.
Fact is, we need the workers to some degree, but not in the current numbers nor in the way they are making it here.
Illegals have done a lot of serious damage and are costing us some serious money... all with practically zero return. Almost all of the money is pumped into the Mexican economy and minimal amounts are spent here in the US... no more than they absolutely have to.
There IS a compromise to be had and we are going to have to get there. It's surely not right down he middle either.
By far, these are good folks who have been taught that US immigration rules are nothing more than a technicality.. a game to be played. They are ENCOURAGED to sneak into the US and send their money back home. A lot of these people are eating dirt back home so I can't hardly blame them to taking advantage of the weak US position.. it's a low to moderate risk venture for them and they payoff is huge on their scale.
When I was a kid, a huge farmer in our area employed mexicans during the summer here in Indiana, hundreds of them. He had housing for them and everything. They had their own villages and their own social enforcement. They were very good people, very clean and very hard working. If one got out of line and caused any sort of trouble in the area, the were gone the next day, never to return. They did a lot of good for the area and we actually had a lot of respect for them.
That was 30 and 40 years ago. Today, they are empowered by the left to fight our system and rape it for everything they can. They don't leave in the winter, they stay here and clean out the church food pantrys, they sell drugs and burglarize homes and businesses. The local community is screaming loudly about the invasion and nothing is being done.
One could say that's what we get for allowing them in the first place. But, it can also be said that a controlled guest worker program can be managed and it can work in a positive manner. I've personally seen it work before if managed well.
And those programs are in place, and have been as long as most Americans can remember, but it's much simpler and cheaper to ignore those programs and just do it all illegally, from both the worker and employer's point of view.
And illegals are working in far, far more than seasonal farm jobs.