The Illegal Immigration Debate

Proponents of the "comprehensive immigration" issue argue that "undocumented immigrants" are here to work hard, obey laws, are seeking a better life, pay their taxes, send their children to U.S. schools, just like all other immigrants before them, and are just like the Italians, Germans, and English immigrants who immigrated to this country years ago. That these "undocumented immigrants" just take jobs that Americans are too lazy to take, or wont take because employers don't want to pay the high wages that Americans want. Also proponents of the "comprehensive immigration" issue claim that anti-amnesty advocates are "racists"; since most of the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens are Latinos from Mexico and central America by default there is some truth to that; but labeling opponents does not detract from the issue the fact that 12 to 20 million people are breaking U.S. laws; that they are here illegally, creating havoc with our legal and political systems, encouraging anarchy, supporting illegal activities (such as document and tax fraud), driving down wages in the construction, meat packing, landscaping, and many other industries. Many Americans would be glad to have jobs in these industries and did at one time, with good pay, but now have been forced out of these industries because employers in those industries seek out illegal workers through intermediaries, such as labor contractors.
Not every illegal immigrant is here to "work hard". Statistics are slowly being gathered, which indicates that there is a high percentage of convicts who are illegal aliens (650,000?). Many have committed serious crimes such as assaults and murder. Also many take the easy route to making money by dealing in drugs and associated crimes related to drug trafficking.
Another argument proponents of amnesty use is "you can't kick out 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants", that to do so would be inhumane and physically impossible. What is being overlooked is the large numbers that 12 to 20 million represents. We have a problem and the problem must be dealt with if we are to have a stable and lawful society. We don't have to kick them out. By enforcing tax and labor laws the problem pretty much solves itself. Illegal immigrants unable to find work would have to go back home on their own. For instance: if social security numbers were checked for numbers being used at different work places at the same time that would indicate SS fraud. A worker can't be two places at the same time. Then if an employer had a high number of workers with social security numbers not matching names, or other conflicting data, that would indicate that an employer was deliberately hiring illegal immigrants would it not? I have seen meat packing plants in Texas busing in large numbers of workers that most likely were illegal aliens. Industries such as this bear closer inspection since they are industries with the most to gain by hiring illegal aliens. The IRS randomly checks citizen's tax records so why aren't social security records routinely checked for fraud?
Then there is the "inhumane" argument. "If we enforced our immigration laws we would be causing harm to poor people just trying to get ahead in life, people paying taxes and sending their children to school etc." The big question is "whose fault is it for their predicament"? Did we ask them to break our laws, subvert our judicial system, create anarchy in our society? No. Everyone is accountable for their own actions and the consequences of their actions are on their shoulders, not ours. We all have a tendency to empathize with people and there is a lot of empathy going around. Our emotions are being strummed like a well tuned harp by the proponents of so-called "comprehensive immigration". There are a lot of exaggerations such as; cost of food will go up, or fruit and vegetables will rot in the fields, you can't deport 12 million "immigrants", Minutemen are violent and racists, etc.
We pass laws for good reasons. The fact is we welcome immigrants to this country--those immigrants who are willing to obey and respect our laws.
Arguments are made that immigration in years past was loose, with many of those entering our country with no papers. We paid the price for that too--syndicated crime and other social problems. We passed laws to prevent such occurrences from happening in the present and future. The very same laws that some are now willing to break or subvert. If we would follow law based on historical precedent we would be dunking people, burning people for witchcraft and the like. Events in the past are instructive but not necessarily binding.