It's sad that in a 'hot' issue like this, almost everyone seems to gravitate to a "you're either for us or against us" position. Why is it so hard to see that there are multiple sub-issues embedded in this situation?

Yes, we ARE almost all either immigrants or descendants of them, but that is hardly a reason for continuously allowing in anyone who, for any reason, decides they want to come here and manages to avoid the legal process.
Yes, we need seasonal farm workers and some others....but what we are GETTING are millions of poor, undocumented folks with few skills, who don't speak the language, but require health services and who often resort to crime when jobs are in short supply.

   There are hospitals whose emergency rooms are at saturation because they are committed to treat everyone, but can't cope with the increase. We have schools who can't provide enough multi-lingual classes and who have multi-cultural discipline problems.

Yet, we still want to be a country which is welcoming to diverse cultures and tries to be fair and allow reasonable immigration to honest immigrants from MANY countries.

The mathematics is complex, but some obvious parts are simple...we cannot allow unlimited access to everyone who can sneak in! People must be assimilated, not just allowed to create a plethora of mini-ghettos in large cities, and a shadowy sub-culture in rural areas.

This is not....or SHOULD NOT...be a matter of political correctness, it should be a matter of fairness tempered by practicality.

   I see politician everyday now making statements based not on sense, but on what they see as the position that will get them votes...Crap!

I am tired of defenses based on just evoking sympathy, or on economics. Yes, 'most' folks we are concerned with are honest and hungry and just trying to survive, and yes, we need some workers to fill certain economic slots, but we cannot absorb everyone who might want to come here!
We MUST find a solution that deals will ALL aspects of the issue....and, I'm sorry, but that will mean disappointing some.


I could go on for many paragraphs detailing all the sub-issues involved, but you already know most of them, and I have work to do.

Please don't try to reduce all of them to some slogan.