I dont think I am in much disagreement with Andrew or Starboard here. I am a Chinese, so when I talk about illegal immigrants, I dont just mean Mexican or Latino. There are probably more illegal immigrants from Mexico than from Asia, but essentially people take the same risk or more risk to illegally enter US, just like in the movie Crash. Discrimination comes in many different ways; people are discriminated by class, by race, by sex orientation, by religion, by culture, etc. Some discrimination are blunt, many are more subtle. Just because I have a decent job, can speak English, does not mean that I dont feel being discriminated from time to time.
I dont support the deportation of illegal immigrants here in US already that are contributing members of the society. To simply put, the US economy can not afford that and its inhumane to send people who have already built their life and family here back to their home country. For those people, the government should provide a roadmap for them to become legal residents or citizens given if they satisfy certain criteria. Its not an amnesty and those people should not get ahead of other people who come here legally and are already in the process. How can the administration handle the volume once a plan is put forward, thats the big question I have. At the same time, you need to tighten the boarder control (not just US-Mexico border, but all borders by land, by sea, and by air) to reduce more illegal immigrants from coming.
I dont think the illegal immigrants issue is a republican vs. democrat issue. They may use the issue to play politics for mid term, but essentially its the same issue both need to face and neither have a good solution for it.