[CindyDawg]

My post wasn't meant offensively. If you don't have roots in Mexico then you can't answer. Can people have dual loyalty though? That's my question. If I'm in Mexico, I respect their laws and customs but my loyalty is to America. If I wanted to be a Mexican citizen (if that is even possible) I would need to put Mexico first. Are people that want citizenship here willing to do that or do they want to just work here, get benefits and be loyal to Mexico? They have to make a choice. When a person waves a green flag here in a protest march or burns an American one, what does that tell you?

[hispanarepublicana]

If I'm in Mexico, I respect their laws and customs but my loyalty is to America

This is true, and I do the same when in a foreign country as a visitor (although I would have a problem covering my head in a a Muslim country); but I don't think the illegals coming here consider themselves to be Americans or even would-be Americans; and they don't even afford us, the Americans, the type of "visitor" respect of which you speak. It's because they're not really visitors, but intruders/trespassers.