The thing is, I hate to see so many people being taken advantage of in every country north of the Panama canal. I can't help coming back over and over again to the suspicion that powers-that-be in the U.S. ultimately obtain self serving end results in keeping them legally (and economically) marginalized. At the very, very least, a simple, functioning migrant worker program could have been maintained for the past several decades. Coming at it from that angle, I end up siding with many of those who say that a stable (and civilized) country should be a nation of laws, regardless of where their perspective is placed. People who hold that very simple opinion are frequently called "racists" in this illegal immigration subject, to the point where we can largely tune it out.