If we want to be hard asses, fine, but let's recognize the suffering this inflicts on good, hard working people, many who have US citizen family here.

In Calif, where I live, we've had more than our share of conservatives wanting to kick kids out of public schools because their papers aren't in order, tear families apart by deporting the parents of US citizen kids, deny health care to the sick, etc etc etc. I'd like to see the immigration debate consider that we inflict a lot of suffering when we adopt Romney-esque, Giullani-esque, Huckabee-esque, Hunter-esque, and Republican-esque policies.

My hope is that we keep the "human" side of immigration policy in mind.

Surely we can ALL agree on that, no?