If you have a grandparent who emigrated to this country 100 years ago, what were the requirements for entry at that time? How much education and training and English was needed? Was your grandparent from an ethnic group that was blamed by the WASP majority for excess crime, low IQ, poor housing upkeep, refusal to give up their old country ways, being dirty and smelly and stuck taking menial jobs? And within one or two generations, did they not mostly produce children who have melted into the American melting pot? And were our borders slammed shut for reasonable economic reasons or xenophobia and bigotry?

Are you zealots ready to change our quotas to allow a few million a year to enter this country "legally" or are you determined to keep the fences up? When people enter this country without authorization they are not "illegal" people. Their action was illegal and the adjective your side has chosen tells much about your perception. And much about the empathy you display toward those who had the courage and determination to try to better their lives and those of their families.