[thecavemaster]

Exactly Fenix, I was getting ready to post the same thing. The whole point of my earlier post is that the person who compared illegal immigration to stealing made a valid analogy. You could try to justify any illegal act, including stealing or sneaking into the country, by citing economic hardship, and ethically those activities may be acceptable. But that does not change the fact that they are illegal.

No one is saying these are bad peoplete, but the fact that they are breaking the law can not be debated.

I think, if you look at the thread starter, my intent was not to argue the illegal/legal immigration point, nor to suggest that I am the "only one" who has empathy for the least and last of this space-time world. I am suggesting that each immigrant, legal or illegal, should be viewed through the lens of what motivates them to leave what they know and love to come to what they don't know and where, for the most part, they are not loved. I won't back up from that. People who sat in at lunch counters in the '60's were lawbreakers in Birmingham. To me, sometimes the law is not just...and, if to point out its injustice means to suffer its punishment for breaking it, so be it.