No person is 'illegal', quite true. But people can do illegal things.
My daughter is an immigrant from China, but believe me, she's a legal immigrant. We had to run through tons of hoops with the Chinese and US authorities to get us into China, do the adoption, get her Chinese passport and papers, get her US visa to return to this country, and she automatically became a citizen by act of Congress in February 2001.
I can easily imagine that INS is staffed too lightly and works clumsily and slowly. Demand better. Raise hell on the issue. Demand fair. reasonably speedy resolutions on cases. I can understand people having trouble with government bureaucracies.
What I do not understand are people who are not even trying to deal with the bureaucracy at all and are just deciding to overstay visas deliberately or strolling across the border. They know full well that what they are doing is against the rules of our country and theirs, but they're betting they can avoid the cops on this.
I saw Chinese with Green Cards get pulled out of line at the airport and were not allowed to board the plane to the USA. Believe me, China takes its border controls seriously. We should do so too, if border security means anything to us.
I honestly don't know of anywhere where you can just move into and out of a country at whim, legally.
I don't believe in 'open borders'. I don't believe in not controlling your own borders. Or who goes across them and why. If that makes me a hard case, so be it.
I believe in revering your root culture. I also know that to get ahead in the mainland USA, you are probably going to have to learn English and be able to support yourself and not be a burden on others.
I also believe that if you are trying to get around the immigration rules from the git-go and demanding 'amnesty' because there are so many of you, it makes all of the struggles of the people who did it legally because they wanted to do the right thing a waste. The USA does not 'owe' you the rights of citizenship.
I believe that a lot of unscrupulous businesses in the USA want cheap labor from out of the USA, cheap labor that won't complain or tell tales on their treatment to the authorities. And that includes a lot of the businesses that you and I deal with every day. If you are *serious* about objecting to people who are here illegally, then make a point of not using those companies that use their services. Boycott them, and encourage others to do so. Turn them in (the employers) to the Feds, and write letter and bitch to all and sundry in power that you want and demand that sort of enforcement against the employers. Only enforcing the law against a bunch of poor people while employers get off is a sin before the Almighty.
I support legal immigration and fair treatment of people who want to immigrate to the United States. I don't support people walking in and presuming they can live here.
I most certainly do not support jerks who consider Hispanics a lower form of life, or any other immigrant. The family historical records show that I have Hispanic (from Spain) blood, Indian (Cherokee) blood, German, Dutch, French, Scottish blood, my wife's family is Scandinavian or English, and my daughter is 100% Chinese from an area in Guangdong province that produced the vast majority of Chinese immigrants to this country since the California Gold Rush. All of those emigrated at one time or other to North America. All are Americans now. And there's a lot of Hispanics who were in the borders of the USA as they exist now that have always been there, including the Californios, the New Mexicans, and the Puerto Ricans. They are born American citizens, and many of their ancestors were within those now-borders long before some skinhead's family came here from Europe.