KatzPajamas-

Semantics is what you are talking about. The term "illegal" is a hot button word. Try using something like "undocumented worker". You are talking about criminal actions such as bank robbery.

Would you rather have your crops rot on the trees or in the ground than to have them picked by undocumented workers? It is impossible to find enough citizens who will do that work. Your food would be scarce and very expensive.

Would you rather have a shortage of chicken, beef, and pork because no one will work in the slaughter houses of Iowa and Nebraska?

These people are not taking work from Americans. They are doing the work Americans will not do any longer.

What is your real problem with undocumented workers? They are not a threat to you. They are not going to take your job. If an undocumented worker does a criminal action such as robbery, he/she will be punished just like anyone else.

The visa program leading to citizenship is broken. It is time for a charitable act to let these hard-working people achieve a dream that you and I already have.

What does the inscription say on the Statue of Liberty? "Give me your tired, your poor, the wretched refuse of your native land yearning to breathe free." Shall we re-do the Statue of Liberty to have her holding a shotgun to keep people out of America? I think not. We are better than that.