It is frustrating to wait years for the Govt and States to process illegal aliens, legally in the United States. Our legal process on immigration has been constitutionally and lawfully in place for more than a century and was working, until illegal aliens decided to smuggle in, by the hundreds of thousands, via planes, trains, automobile, boat and their own two feet, scavenging all of our borders in the broad daylight or dead of night, overwhelming our safeguards.
There are thousands of people waiting legally to gain entry, lawfully. Waving a magic wand for all of them doesn't work because there needs to be quotas and orderliness in the process. Our citizens need to be protected FIRST and resources need to be in place, BEFOREHAND to take on the extra burdens that accompany the influx into our communities.
We cannot afford them, to overwhelm our schools, healthcare and public safety establishments. We cannot tax our townspeople overwhelmingly, to handle the monetary crushing debt, incurred by them to our to State and Govt. We need to protect the legal process because being in 'freefall', like we have been on this issue, is causing more harm than good.
And if an illegal alien has broken any of our laws, then he or she, should be deported immediately. You cannot deserve to live in a free, orderly, protected, democratic society if you cannot follow and obey the rules of law for ALL.The law, is the law.

Hi Theresa. Thanks for reading and commenting. I agree that there are thousands of people waiting and that there is no magic wand. I agree that US Citizens should be our government's first priority. Our immigration laws have been ever changing and people have always come to the US and stayed - like the Einstein example that I used. Years ago the Chinese were excluded and the Japanese were put in camps so I am not sure that we always had great laws until "illegal aliens decided to smuggle in". But like I said, that debate is a great one to have but not the one I was focusing on. Despite where you stand on the immigration debate, what is your opinion about people who somehow look like they may be undocumented being harassed, interrogated, and detained while shopping at flea markets? Doesn't the fact that police need probable cause to arrest someone/pull someone over mean anything? Is being darker skinned or speaking Spanish with your friends probable cause enough these days? Or do you think that since they are here illegally that this is fine and that if thats how we "get em" then thats fine - that our legal safeguards and checks should be put aside to enforce immigration by profiling and detaining people without probable cause?

Just a clarification, is it against the law for law enforcement to ask for ID, do they need 'probable cause' to do so?

Hi Ralph. You are required to give your correct name and address if the police ask for it - that is all. You do not have to show ID. You do not have to discuss what you are doing, what you have in your purse, where you are coming from, what your immigration status is... Moreover, a Guatemalan (for example) passport IS in fact ID and is accepted at liquor stores/bars/whatever so not having a US ID is not probable cause to be detained. Many people don't even have IDs - as we know from the voter ID controversy as of late.