This is a continuing chorus by a group of freepers. Poisonous roots= poisonous tree is the argument. I disagree for a number of reasons:
1) This country was founded by people who had a healthy DISrespect for laws that were arbitrary, senseless, and immoral.
2) Prosecutable torts like theft of a car are different, and you know it. Crap, people CHEERED when that kid "stole" a bus and drove people out of New Orleans to Houston. Sneaking across the border to build a better life for your family is a different kind of crime and you know it, whether you will admit it or not.
3) Our laws are hypocritical and absurd. We have a situation of declining population and need entry level workers. Business and government realize and acknowledge this, but they are too chicken to confront the socialist unions and labor lawyers and acknowledge it. So, they have adopted the coward's solution of letting people in illegally, and denying their culpability. This let them "off the hook" for a while, but now the chickens are coming home to roost from their own constituency.
4) Finally, many freepers and local conservatives (I do not know about you) are extremely hypocritical on this issue, as they continually violate laws re: speeding, their own taxable income reporting requirements copyright infringement, pirated software, etc, yet selectively tout immigration laws as if they were the Bill of Rights or something. I have the most extreme disgust for these people.
What bilge.
We do have entry level workers. They are called teenagers.
Tell that to the immigrant family which has been waiting 10 years - legally - for a brother or sister to get an immigration approval. Or to the spouse waiting nine months for a husband or wife to come here legally.
You like to sling around accusations of racism, but you really are quite cold-hearted and have no idea what you're talking about.
There are several immigration newsgroups over on Usenet. You should take a look at them to see the hell that applicants go through to immigrate legally.