I take it you don't live in an area where they are crossing your borders. I actually used to believe exactly what you did until my family moved to Texas. I have seen the damage they do coming over here illegally. It's not only hurting tax payers, but they are destroying farmers lands, causing them to lose live stock, destroying private tax paying citizens properties. Hell a few of them have broken into homes along the border area and stole from their houses. These people coming over here are not the backbone of society that you claim them to be.

The vast majority are not upstanding citizens either, or they would not be cutting fences, destroying private property and stealing. There is a right and wrong way to do things. Most of them are coming over here because they want to make more money, that is fine, but you have to do it legally. There are plenty of hard working Americans willing and able to do the jobs that undocumented laborers do, the problem is that the undocumented workers are driving DOWN the pay by agreeing to work for less. If the people hiring these undocumented laborers paid a living wage, most Americans would be willing to do that same work. Clearly anyone with a brain can see this is an issue.. that illegals are actually causing. They are not helping anything over here..