There are some rainbow-colored, unicorn-riding air-heads who gas on about "no borders" nonsense, but they seem to be a distinct minority in the real world.
So how do you square this with your illegals are people too and need your help rant?
Rant? What rant?
You just had a giant post about immigrants and in the end went all soft on illegal's. I'm honestly confused by you right now. Would never have expected you to be so pro illegal.
Illegal immigration is obviously wrong. Illegal immigrants should not be in the US and the government has an obligation to secure our borders (not "close" them or pretend to any of the juvenile Rambo nonsense posted here on the subject). That having been said, the great majority of illegal immigrants are not rapists and murderers. They are human beings.
Reasoned discourse, remember?
I agree with some of that. Illegals should be deported. Our borders should be closed, at all times. WE should have the ability to decide who comes in. I don't care that most illegals aren't further accomplished criminals in the fine arts of rape or murder. They all have one thing in common and that is being here illegally. That makes them all equally criminal.
I also get that they are human beings, we all are. That doesn't mean we have to let them raid our house.
My fix for people in Mexico that want to run to the US illegally is why don't you fight for the country you're in to become more like us? That would be a far better use of their time and a better solution for their families that can't run the border.