One of my co-workers is a legal immigrant from Ecuador. He's been working hard under his green card for over a decade and finally got his citizenship a year or two ago. He's the most illegal-immigrant-hating man I've ever met. "I worked hard for my status, why can't they?"

Personally, I feel we need to take a two-pronged approach. I think we need to make it much easier for people to legally immigrate to this country, and cut down a lot of the paperwork and wait time. At the same time we need to step up enforcement to ensure that people take the legal route. But I don't think we can do one without the other.