My grandparents were illegals. So what?
They came, stayed, didn't get caught, and I eventually showed up, as an American. It wasn't my choice, just my fate.
9/11 paranoia rules my country now. Not sanity. Just imaginary and very expensive "security." Much like the (Obama) Emperor's New Clothes.
I don't have to take a stand for or against illegal immigration. That would be like giving an opinion about whether I want winter to come next year. I could delude myself into thinking that saying I didn't want to freeze come next January would some difference, but it wouldn't. I'd still have to get out my winter coat.
Illegal Mexican and latinoamericano immigration is good. For us and for them. That's an opinion I could back up with facts, but doing so wouldn't change the reality that it will go on. Not stop. Nor be stoppable.
Wasting our tax money on the Emperor's new clothes line that's called the Border Wall is our government's way of pretending anything can be done to stop desperate, aspiring or deserving people from crossing over. Just because they're not white, somehow makes the wall a good idea in some small minds.
A wall wouldn't have stopped 9/11. Hadrian couldn't stop the Scots, or whoever it was, with his wall. The Chinese couldn't stop the Mongols, or whoever it was, with their wall. Well, and you know how the one in Berlin turned out.
Even if for some reason you believe that trying to wall ourselves off from the repercussions of what transpires on the rest of the planet somehow indicates sanity, you should be aware that Obama's Border Wall, America's Border Wall, your tax money's Border Wall will help destroy some of your country's natural biodiversity that we somehow missed destroying earlier.