If only taking the legal route to immigration to the United States was as simple as you suggest, then obviously things would be different. Who would want to live illegally in a foreign country? No one. The process to come to the US legally for Hispanics is extremely hard, if not most of the time impossible. They usually won&#039;t approve a Visa for you to live in the US unless you have a job contract and/or you have a sponsor that proves to be capable of supporting you if needed. Moreover, the cost of applying for a Visa, for an individual or an entire family is pretty high. Most, however not all, of the Hispanics that come to the US are poor and/or rural immigrants that can&#039;t afford to pay this. Those who&#039;ve had education and have stable jobs have no need to come to the US to seek opportunities. However, others do need to come in order to provide a better future for their children. They come to find whatever job they can to put food in their tables, clothes on their kids and hopefully provide education for them as well. They come here because their native countries and their governments can no longer provide them with these basic needs. Why was it acceptable that immigrants came here hundreds of years ago claiming to find the &quot;New World&quot; full of opportunity and freedom from persecution in Europe, when if fact it was not a &quot;new world.&quot; It was new to them, who had just learned about it. But for the Native Americans, it was their home. These European immigrants invaded their homes, and not only that; they also killed them and took over their land. So it&#039;s okay because they did it a long time ago, yet when we see people do the same thing now, it&#039;s suddenly wrong and we hold them as criminals? There is no doubt whatsoever that the United States is a great nation of freedom and those immigrants that came here did start something great. But what did Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson advocate in the Declaration of Independence? They advocated three rights that were to be natural and no government could take away... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The acknowledgment of these rights were not for &quot;real&quot; Americans, or citizens because at the time, the United State was just then declaring its independence, these rights were meant for all humans and it was this right that justified their effort to free themselves from Great Britain. Was this lawful? Did they respect the British culture by doing so? Of course not! The colonists rebelled against the British, but in efforts to create a better future for themselves, and their generations, and all who fought for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That&#039;s what these immigrants are doing, seeking to live, to find liberty, and most importantly they&#039;re in pursuit of happiness, for them and their future generations, just as the past immigrants did. However such efforts are considered crimes and are severely punished sometimes even tearing families apart. What about the children that had no choice but to come here with their parents? They are also being punished, their parents are deported and they find themselves alone. If the problem isn&#039;t with having Hispanics in the US, if the problem really is about having them here illegally, then why not facilitate the immigration process to that they can come here legally? The world is globalizing and with future unstable populations here in the US due to baby boomers and such factors, immigration will be a good thing for this country. Some say they&#039;re not paying taxes. Do your research, if they&#039;re here working illegally, they have to steal someone else&#039;s SS# to be hired and they get their taxes taken away through that SS#. They pay sale taxes at the store just like any other American. They&#039;re taking our jobs? Probably because we&#039;re too proud or lazy to take the low paying, labor intensive jobs, yet we don&#039;t mind putting up a sign reading &quot;homeless,&quot; because it&rsquo;s easier. All they care about is providing for their families, since it&#039;s their duty. Unless we&#039;re Native Americans, we all come from different places around the world. Our ancestors made the effort and they fought, so you can be here with a decent education, a job, a house. Are Hispanics not worthy of such opportunities because they&#039;re not white and don&#039;t speak English, and they&#039;re not like us? It&#039;s just something to think about. This law isn&#039;t affecting an object, it isn&#039;t affecting thieves, or murderers, it&#039;s affecting families, real hard-working people that just seek to pursue a little happiness, and a little improvement in their lives and their children...