Some folks here just don't like the fact that 20 million Mexicans are here legally, so they are demogauging the threat and extent of some Mexican swarm in the millions mambo stepping across the border.
There's the broad brush again, Arne.
As I understand your post, it boils down to this...
Illegals are untraceable and therefore uncountable, and since we don't know how many are here, they are therefore not really here. Since they're not really here, anyone who doesn't want them here is a secret anti-Mexican.
You live in a State unaffected much by Illegals. California isn't such a State. Are most Californians anti-Mexican? Most voted for Prop #187.
Was the El Salvadoran gal who was a legal immigrant that I dated a couple of years ago anti-Hispanic, because of the resentment she had toward Illegals? A couple of other ladies I dated last year wer Bulgarian and Egyptian Copt.
They held the same dim view of Illegals flouting laws they were working hard to obey.
The problem doesn't affect you, so you don't see a problem.
Any solution you come up with to a problem you don't see is therefore of questionable efficacy.
Tooth, how do we find these people? Surely you don't believe that we can conduct some law enforcement technique to ferret out the interlopers. How? Roadside ID checks?
Here's the deal: These human beings have to eat, sleep in security and shelter, move around to do their thing, clothe and bathe themselves and have some human interaction with friends or family either here or in their native land.
They are either working somewhere or grabbing a check or voucher from fat-assed Phyllis, that bad-ad woman in County services noone has been able to fire or nicely ask for favors that are really part of her job ...
If this Illegal immigrant is working ... let's give him a temporary working visa to reside in the country legally. If he's not working, let's cut off his taxpayer lifeline. That taxpayer lifeline - to whatever number of illegals who can't support themselves independently - is the our great and oh so mighty target. If some undocumented guy is breaking his back planting trees 15 hours a day in 100 degree heat, let's get him a work visa to get him authorized and a gift certificate for a spa day at the Phonecian Resort as a lovely parting gift.
The guys and gals who are working, let's make them real and on the straight and narrow. Those that aren't, absent their medical care, housing consultant, social worker, community consultant, food stamps, interpreter, school liason ... all these people who pocket the 50% taxes you and I pay to our masters ... they'll go home. They're not going to go on a Bonnie and Clyde type crime spree to buy Carl Buddig Hamlike Meat. They will go back where they came from, and we'll help them to go there safely, and when someone chooses to sponsor them, we'll get them back here because America rocks!
The enemy is a well entrenched and difficult to eradicate welfare industry, and the Democrat pols who protect and feed them. They need to live "clobbering time" because they have put the security and economic stability of our country behind their political desire to maintain power and the control of ... oh ... $4 or $5 TRILLION of our tax money they distribute to that invisible crony economy that is breaking down our marvelous American structure.
The immigration challenge is a subset of a larger challenge to stop the anti-Amreican leftist elites in media, politics, academia and educaratic syndicates,and all the whore lawyers, consultants, diversity specialists, civil servants and their unions, trial lawyers, non profit bloodsuckers etc .... from tearing down the nifty masterpiece a bunch of cake eaters threw together two centuries ago.
Newly arrived immigrants, who are led to the public teat by "compassionate" Democrats, are simply a dangerous, if not captive, voting bloc to these ruthless bastards. They fear the Hispanics, because devout father of four Jaime attends Mass every Sunday, is planning to stay with his family, and is intent on raising his teenage daughters to live through their teenage years without a devestating pregnancy or medication. How do they sell to that kind of Latino? That's the issue here. We know what welfare poisoning has done to the African-American Community. Destroyed their families, communities and humanity ... repayed with 99% voting loyalty to those who destroyed them. The Dems want that 98 million bloc equally hopeless, helpless and on that bus pulling the lever starting with "D" every first Tuesday in November. Nuthin else matters to these demons, their entire criminal multi trillion economy of cronyism and patronage depends on their re-election to office.