For Mr. Logic and anyone else who doesn't understand the forces of global migration,
Lincoln's address to the Lyceum not withstanding, you fail to grapple with the fact that legislation has never been capable of governing morality... as long as U.S. capitalism depends on cheap labor to maximize the rate of return, there will be "illegal" immigrants as a class in this country. How legal is it to pay substandard wages? Slumlord, is that ethical? These are ethical, not legal questions...

"Illegal Immigrant" labor is the only thing better than slavery... Well, prison labor is pretty good, but it's hard to get prisoner's out to pick lettuce and slaughter poultry and such... so, "illegal" labor works out pretty good. The owner class in the U.S. depends on a supply of cheap labor without recourse to collective bargaining, and sufficiently desperate to work for low wages, as the threat of deportation looms.

The illegality of such labor has everything to do with their important place at the bottom of the chain of exploitation. So, all workers in the U.S., and the world for that matter, should support the unconditional rights of all human beings to traverse national borders in search of better conditions of existence... Otherwise, we are all dragged down with the "illegals," as wages drop, and working conditions worsen, and none of us can complain, as there is always a pool of surplus labor waiting to take our jobs for less pay, because things are even worse back in central Mexico, or India, or Singapore, or whatever other impoverished police state they escaped from... In short, I'd like to invite you to pull the "legality/illegality" blinders off your head, and think outside the socially constructed box of your existence... National borders benefit elites, labor law benefits elites, the entire system has been designed to maintain the benefits of elites... Who would pick fruit, do construction, wash dishes, clean houses, take care of middle class white kids - at a price that makes middle-class life possible? Who? Only the underclass of immigrants and the working poor in the U.S. ... This movie will do much to spread the truth about these structural conditions... We are all under the same moon, a capitalist moon that grows ever darker as globalization continues its march across the globe... No WTO! Fair Trade Now! Workers of the World Unite against the ignorance of people like the guy who keeps posting again and again with nothing more to say than "they're illegal," "they're breaking the law"... well, guess what Exxon and Shell are doing around the world? What is the U.S. government doing in Iraq? What have U.S. corporations done in Latin America, with the aide of the U.S. military, for over a century? They have broken the law, and they have broken lives, and broken the dreams of 3/4 of the world's population, who want nothing more than to live a decent life... and were our racist, xenophobic, narrow-minded friends in the U.S. to trade places, for a single day, with any of the denizens of the 2/3 world, they would be swimming across the Rio Bravo, or hiding in cars to get back to San Diego... The United States is illegal, stolen from the Natives, built on slavery... OK? Get over it... your racist laws mean nothing... Fight the Power... Ningún Ser Humano es Ilegal... No one is illegal... One world, one love... redistribution of wealth, now!