I'll jump in here....
When I go to Home Depot -- I see people that WANT to work... and I like that about those people. They're not standing by the freeway offramp with some sob story on a piece of cardboard...
What I do not like - is that they (meaning anyone that comes illegally) pay ZERO taxes... and when they get ill... they show up at the ER and we fix them up free of charge... and I don't like that some of the money they earn is sent out of my country... and I don't like the mess that is left behind in the areas they inhabit. In other words - come here and RESPECT my way of life... don't turn my country into the crap country you left behind.
If people come here and like it... then I want them to try to better themselves - learn to speak english - and pay taxes etc just like I do. I don't want them to work in the fields for low pay and do back breaking work. But that "low cost" of labor you cite doesn't jibe with the 11 BILLION DOLLARS that California budgets for "illegals".... So just like Obamacare... there is no "free" or "low cost" medical care... someone is paying - we're just recognizing it in a different column on the spreadsheet .
So --- I don't like to bitch --- unless I think I have a better way....
We don't need to deport people.... But we do need to find a way to organize them and bring them to some sort of "legal state" where they can be here - pay taxes and medicare etc - but not be citizens without going through what our laws already say they must do.
What I don't like is what I see when I go to Southern California... where parts of it are looking more and more like Northern Mexico... and THAT is what people are upset about I think... So I think people would like a "fix" for the issue - and I think people in general would like to see other people do well and improve themselves... but NOT at the expense of our way of life as we know it.
Does that make sense?