I like your post “no such” I will read it again. I didn’t understand the “Humble laborer” area of it. I was simply trying to show that mexicans(our primary source of immigrant labor) are every bit as human as we are because there is some attitude in this thread that expresses other sentiments.
I have a problem with the illegal aspect of it too. Take pride ,racism and fear out of it though and the moral dimension of crossing Illegally to work where you truly are wanted and needed, is tiny compared to the moral infractions permeating our system in countless ways. The real injustice is wanting to chew them up and spit them out a vililfy them and make a political issue out of it every time the economy tanks. Some of your examples of how to make adjustments would clearly clean the issue up some if they are possible to implement? Seems like our country has adopted the half ass measures approach to everything.