I actually don't have much against those illegals who are really here working hard for low wages ---it's just I see relatively few of them but large numbers of the other kinds. It also seems unfair that the farmworker is more likely to get deported than the unwed mother collecting her handouts because that anchor baby lets her stay and apply for welfare. A trip to the county hospital here can be revealing.
We agree on that. I was fully behind Prop 187 (?) in CA. But I do think that there is an air of unreasonability that creeps into these discussions that we can just "shut down" the borders.
Obviously (do I really need to say this?) we should not be giving either free medical care or education to illegal immigrants of any race. I think the best way to police this, outside of having schools refuse to admit anyone who can't prove citizenship, is to get the Hispanic community to help by showing it's in THEIR interest to shut down this cross-border trade. That is where I think conservatism needs to focus.