Americans and the "immigration debate"

[Preechr]

I think I'll just be happier when the conservative angle obtusifies itself into something other than the "It's an invasion!" thing-a-ma-jigger. That, and if I hear the argument that all illegals are inherently criminals because they broke the ridiculous and labyrinthine immigration tangle of laws to begin their lives here I'll throw up. As if no "real" American ever broke a law they felt, at the time, was both stupid and against their interests, only to move on and remain a decent person.

When any sort of official or pundit of note takes the tack toward revamping the immigration process into something this side of an at least ten-year (if not interminable) process, somebody please wake me up. People cannot be expected to devote such a large portion of their lifespan to just becoming an American citizen on paper. On one hand, that's simply an outrageous presumption, but on the other, it's a cause and effect issue that is responsible for the closed communities of immigrants alluded to in the above Roosevelt quote.

Our current immigration process is economic slavery.