How about you ask the residents of those California "sanctuary cities" about illegal immigrants? They might have a thing or 12 to tell you. How about the hospitals that have shut down because they can no longer afford to provide the free health care. Access to "subsidized" health care, they already have it, they don't need a government plan, we already pay for them. What are the hospitals going to do, lock them out? How about all those jobs they're doing that Americans won't? Like all those jobs at the meat packing plants that had hundreds lined up for after the illegals were hauled off, or the chicken processing plant near here where over 500 people were in line the morning after 130 illegal immigrants were hauled off? Maybe it's those brick laying jobs the illegal immigrants were doing in a town next door that was finally busted after unemployed American bricklayers began protesting outside the work site. Maybe it's all the schools we have to add here because the illegal immigrant population is growing so fast, and hire gang control officers for those schools too for some reason. Maybe it's watching my local hospitals raise rates 5-6% a year to cover the cost of "non-paying" customers? Or maybe it's the neighborhoods that were once nice quiet middle class but are now run down slum areas known as "Little Mexico" that are so violent that the local police won't go in except in force.
Yes, we're all immigrants, but our ancestors followed the rules, went through the process, LEARNED ENGLISH, BECAME CITIZENS.
Yeah, nice comparison to China and India, just hesitate to take note, they work for a buck an hour or less. Wonder why, could it be something about those billion people? Are you willing to work for those wages, with their (lack of) benefits, under their conditions? How about trading your life here for a life like the average factory worker there? Still attractive?
Legal/Illegal, there is more of a difference than 2 letters, look them up.