text: The general American consensus seems to be negative towards immigrants. I've heard a lot of send them back, keep them out, deny them rights, sort of plans that are not logical, and can't be accomplished, and frankly, seem rather inhumane . I'm not exactly sure what goals we are looking to accomplish with the proposed legislation that the goverment is debating, however I think it won't pass anyway. We seem to be targeting immigrants with the legislation. I'm pretty sure that we should be targeting "Legal" Americans who do not seem to be complying with the laws regarding employment of illegal immigrants. Perhaps if there wasn't an established precedent among immigrants, that they could easily enter the country and obtain employment without obtaining all of the proper documantation, and permission, then maybe they wouldn't be so quick to skip the legal process.\nI don't know what the answers are. All I know is that most Americans are of immigrant heritage. The country was built on the premise that all oppressed persons could live freely in America. The melting pot. The world police. We are the folks who want to make a quick buck, and don't seem to have a problem paying illegal immigrants under the table to do do jobs that we Americans, (special breed of priveleged humans that we are) will not do. A large portion of our population would sooner take doantaions from church groups, or take welfare, and food stamps from the goverment than lower themselves by digging ditches, or cleaning toilettes, because we didn't bother to take the free education that we are entitled to, or take the extra time and effort to earn the degrees that would land us a profitable position doing an "honorable job". A large portion of folks coming from other countries do not have the same opportunities to turn down jobs and opt to not have a work ethic. A lot of people from other countries come here under horrid conditions for the opportunity to work under horrid conditions for pay that we Americans would not accept even if we were instead working in an air conditioned department store sipping $3 cups of coffee. It seems to me that immigrants desire to provide a better life for their families, while we would like to secure an X-Box 360 or an Ipod for ours. We desire the bling bling of a cool new car, and designer clothes. \nI could be wrong, but it seems to me that we need willing immigrants in order to have all of the things that we want with as little effort as we seem to be able to exert. If that's the case then I don't suppose that we ought to continue the hypocritical banter about sending them back to where they came from, etc. If we ever do actually get to a point where we want to do all of our own work then I guess we'd better crack down on the folks who employ people illegally, rather than deny children of immigrants an education, or arrest church groups for providing help to immigrants. \nI'm afraid that I don't agree with "the immigration law" as it does not address the real issues.\nI think that "the immigration law" is receiving a lot of media hype at the moment because we're nearing an election year.