You don't believe in the Rule of Law? National Sovereignty? Common Language and Culture that unites rather than Balkanize? Check out Mexico's immigration laws. They would put ours to shame. And, they enforce theirs.
It is just a ruse, and too many conservatives take the bait.
It is not a ruse. Democrats need new voters to sustain the welfare state, and most Republicans need it to curry favor to their crony capitalist business groups. So yes, I will "foam at the mouth" over any politician that attempts to pass amnesty.
Being illegal in the US, is a civil, not criminal offense. Under Obama, you are a very likely civil offender according to the IRS and other federal agencies. Get it?
Personally, I follow what my real King tells me.
The Israelites’ experience of living as homeless aliens was so painful and frightening that God ordered his people for all time to have special care for the alien: “You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; have the same love for him as for yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt” (Lv 19:33-34).
The New Testament begins with Matthew’s story of Joseph and Mary’s escape to Egypt with their newborn son, Jesus, because the paranoid and jealous King Herod wanted to kill the infant. Our Savior himself lived as a refugee because his own land was not safe.
Jesus reiterates the Old Testament command to love and care for the stranger, a criterion by which we shall be judged: “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me” (Mt 25:35).
The Apostle Paul asserts the absolute equality of all people before God: “There is neither Jew nor Greek . . . for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal 3:28). In Christ, the human race is one before God, equal in dignity and rights.