I know a man from Nicaragua. He worked hard for his green card. He got married while in the process and was forced to start all over again from zero. He’s the hardest working man I know. He has a lovely family and his kids are as American (in the best sense) as any.
He is very angry about illegals. He’s pissed at the government for allowing them; for enabling them to break the rules. When I asked why he turned red and got spitting mad. Unfortunately, he lapsed almost entirely into Spanish. What I gathered as to the source of his anger is, one they are direct competition. Two, they commit lots of crimes against other Latinos. We hardly hear about them as most crimes are not reported. He can’t even look a cop in the face as he’s terrified of men in uniform. So, they get robbed, raped and beaten and nobody outside the family ever hears about it. Picture living with the schoolyard bully down the street.
It really is not a coincidence that a population that has already demonstrated a willingness to break one law tends to be a lot more likely to be willing to break other laws.
The law is as much about respect as it is anything else, when you don’t have that respect your bound only by fear and feel will not keep many of us lawful.
if you want to increase immigration from south and central America you really don’t want the ones who have already come here illegally. They have already demonstrated their lack of respect for our laws in that act, that makes them a lot more likely to break other laws.