Rights or Privileges?

Demonstrations in the streets, comments from abroad, all claim "rights" to work and live alongside citizens as if they were citizens. Citizens do have the "right" to live and work in this country and partake of the benefits they and their ancestors earned by work, toil, and blood. Foreign Nationals have the privilege of doing so, with our "permission". It is not a "God given" right for them to be in the U.S., it is not a "God given" right that they find work here, it is not a "God given" right that they be allowed citizenship. As citizens we have the right to say no to Foreign Nationals.
Unfortunatley some legislators have bought into the idea that foreign nationals have some sort of right to work, live, and have citizenship despite the law and the majority's wishes.
In the past I made the mistake to assume our legislators were well educated, abreast of the issues, and had brains--Iraq, deficits, and the illegal alien issue has unfortunately proven me wrong. Not only are they dumb as rocks they can't even fall back on trying to represent the people's interests. Greedy, power hungry, and idealogues for the most part--the American people deserve better.