What many/most Americans dont get is that your an American because you were born here. they dont have the same level of gratitude for citizenship as some one that made the choice to come here and become one. I have never heard one naturalized citizen say we should have more illegal in this country or we should elt the ones here stay.
My belief is by letting illegal stay here and letting them potentially become citizens we are diluting what it is to be an American. There is NO other country on this planet that lets as many people in and willing accepts them as citizens, There is no country as great or as free as America and even with the communists within trying to destroy and erode those freedoms there is no other country i would rather be.
If some one wants to become to America so bad then they should go through the legal process. Not do it the criminal way.
Imagine America as a business and was looking for employees. You turn up to work one day and find 5 guys have broke a window and are standing inside, You ask them What are you doing ? and they tell you were your new workers and now we are here so you have to keep us on. Is that how it would/should work ? Would you want to have an employee that the first time you met them was because they had committed a crime, NO.
America has so many people wanting to come here and be AMERICANS, They should only take the best and the brightest. We shouldn't be taking in those that dont take the time to learn English, have poor education or that have criminal records no matter how small. We should not be allowing people to come here on student visas, get an education and then take Americas knowledge home with them. Every time we do that we are letting people steal Americas wealth and Americas future.
No person in America should be calling themselves anything but an american. There is no such thing as an African-american, a Mexican-american, and Asian-american or European-american. You either an American or your not. Every person coming here who takes the oath to become an american should (and in the oath does).
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."