Immigration...Imnigracion....

It seems everyone has an opinion on immigration these days... particularly illegal immigration...

Well I've had mine since I was about 7 years old.

What's the problem with it? You're an immigrant too, so why don't you leave?

I can understand the stigma attached to illegal immigration... it's not really illegal
immigration that's too much of the problem. It's illegal hispanic immigrants that are.
That is where all the stigma comes from, especially the right wing. I could understand that illegal immigration was bad if the immigrants that were coming were just coming here and getting on welfare, using up the government's money, etc, etc...
But they aren't. They come here to work, so they can help support families back at home, because back at home they would either be working for drug lords, or not at all. They come out of an act of desperation, because they come from a third world country where the government is corrupt, there is hardly any food, and if you want to buy food for the family you have to make it.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be here.
They come because their mother, too old to work, and their father, either dead or absent or also too old can not provide for the family anymore.
That's why they are here. Working for minimum wage, if that. Living in abject poverty here...
But a bit above how they lived in their home country.
They come here because maybe, hopefully, if they are granted citizenship they can give thier
children a better life than they had.

I am one of those children.
That's why, that's exactly why there is nothing wrong with immigration.
And if it's so wrong because it's 'illegal'
Then make it legal.