So most of the arguments here is not so much them being here illegally, but that our own government is broken because they give hand-outs to anyone who asks.
I advocate an open border. Anyone who wants to come to this country to work or better themselves should be able to freely do so.
merlock, While it may be *our* society it is still an amalgam of many societies. I can't imagine an America without the things that the many emigrants brought with them. America is a culture of many cultures.
And the crime the committed? I don't consider something a crime unless it deprives another of their life/liberty/property.
flyin929, allowing an open boarder would not drop our guard. We've survived this far without the border being a problem. Culturally, most Mexicans do seem to be reluctant to assimilate. However, I would explain this as us saying that they are illegals. Allow them to be here and pay into our system. If they are gonna be here they might as well pay taxes like all of us.
Did they help out in Iraq? We shouldn't even be there in the first place

So I can't fault them for that.
Break with OPEC? They are not members of OPEC. I don't understand the problem.
Harbor fugitives? Just like Canada and other nations. We have an extradition process in place if we need those people to serve justice here.
Maddog, the illegals I worked with payed into Social Security, but I don't see how they would draw from it. They have 3-5 people to a SS card.
So if we really look at this we see that they pay their 6.2% in SS taxes as well as the corporation that MATCHES that 6.2%. Not to mention the payroll tax of 1.45% that both employer and employee pay. So I would say that the workers being payed by corporations ARE doing their part to pay into a system they will not be able to draw from.