USATODAY.com - 1,200 caught in immigration raids at IFCO Systems plants

USATODAY.com - 1,200 caught in immigration raids at IFCO Systems plants: "Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters marched in U.S. cities April 10 to protest proposed legislation that would turn millions of illegal immigrants into criminals and would fence off sections of the U.S. border with Mexico."


Okay, take the words highlighted in purple above and replace them with:

Murders
Thieves
Rapists
Tax evaders
trespassers
Child Molesters
Drunk Drivers

How can someone who is by classification a criminal be turned into a criminal by the enforcement of law's that existed before they began their illegal actions?

It is interesting that these people are called immigrants in the opening line. They are not immigrants. Immigrants are people who want to be a part of a culture. Show up at the consulate, apply for visas and go thru the same channels that were used for the millions of immigrants (Real Immigrants) who made this country what it is today... Good, bad or indifferent this country is a nation of immigrants... Legal Immigrants.

I'm not saying they should leave. I'm not saying they can't work here. I'm saying that if they are going to join the system they need to join the system. They need to pay taxes, social security and all the things that they intend on becoming benefactors of in the future. Social services need to be fully funded by them as well as by us.

Illegal is illegal. What part of that don't they ("they" meaning the press, not the tresspassers)understand?