[TheRealThing]

The United States has the right and obligation to maintain and enforce its own immigration and naturalization processes. However, we haven't. I think you are correct to assert that political considerations have led to abdication of responsibility in this issue. I just don't agree that it is only one party that is guilty of exploiting this issue. In my view, coming up with a responsible, just plan to deal with 12 million people already here is neither holding up a picture of a street-dwelling Honduran child, or denying this country's sovereignty as we move forward. It is reality.

No now I put in a qualifier when I said that Republicans are ready to cry uncle. They contributed alright, and George W. was notably beset by the Bush family idea that America is somehow bound to take in strays. So though I agree both sides are responsible, still it is the Dems who're in hot pursuit of a change in the demographic. What they are saying and doing, in forcing run away numbers of immigrants on the citizenry is idiotic not to mention unaffordable. Especially with regard to what is a veritable plague of unvettable Syrian refugees.

We can't push some magic button and expect them (the 12+ million) to all come out of the shadows and turn themselves in. However, when they are overtaken in the various acts of grievous fault for which they seem prone to commit, they should at that point expect to be shipped out of here. But like I said, the problem no longer seems remote to a majority of Americans who by personal experience have at least some familiarity with the problem of illegal immigration.