And that disregard for the rule of law is perpetuated by those at the top. Not those at the bottom. And, I hate to say it, but it's also aided and abetted by most, if not all of the developed world. By some warped sense of duty we continue to send foreign aid in the form of money, equpiment and food to these hell holes. None of which reach the people we ostensibly wish to aid...rather it all goes to the ruling oligarchies and their armies and other cronies, while their populations continue to starve.
I beleive in the rule of law and know that our adherence to it is one of the things that has made this country great. But the law should be tempered with mercy and compassion.
The law also needs to be compassionate to those citizens who have been raped, murdered, killed or otherwise victimized by illegals whose blatant disregard for one law without consequence has encouraged them to blatantly disregard others. The law needs to be compassionate to the Chinese dissident, the East African Christian, the poor lady in Bangladesh who all want to come here as well, and are willing to spend their life savings, stand in line for hours and days on end at US Embassies around the world and follow the law scrupulously only to be pushed to the back of the line because others have snuck in front of them. Don't you agree that the compassion of the law should extend to them as well?
Our failed, neglected enforcement on the part of the government + our dispersal of freebies have made illegal immigration a much more attractive option than it ever should have been - and not only to those fleeing for a better life, but for opportunistice predators and parasites as well.