Quote Originally Posted by eg420ne
I agree, they should all go back and apply for citizenship just like the people of old did..What makes these illegals so special that our laws dont apply to them...
1st. very hard to generalize like that [native born oppose illegal immigration].

nothing makes them special but understand this. anyone who's grandparents or greatgrandparents came here in the
"Only about 2 percent were denied admission to the U.S. and sent back to their countries of origin for reasons such as chronic disease, criminal background, or insanity" -Wikipedia on Ellis Island

so it's not like these laws were always in place, when we were accepting Europeans, the process was much quicker and we took them ALL. Now it takes 10+ years. this does not mean that they should be doing what they're doing, but things are much stricter now and to compare it to the older days is ridiculous, if the laws were the same as the older days no1 would be doing it illegally.