What I can't understand is the amount of hatred being aimed towards these people. Yes, in a legal sense they have broken the law. But the bigger question is: Are the laws and penalties just? Some proponents of the bill are calling for all the programs given to these immigrants should be stripped from them. Health care, education, all public services are being recalled. So if a little 6-year old Mexican boy enters the hospital with a case of, let's say, pneumonia, perhaps a broken arm, or even a persistent stomachache, we as a collective body of citizens of this great country are going to deny that child medical care just because he is an illegal immigrant? Yes, they still allow room for emergency care, but how long until these people demand that that be revoked as well? Hypocrisy.

The news program I was watching was "The Situation Room" on CNN where Jack Cafferty mentioned to the host, Wolf Blitzer, of how the INS buses should be at these rallies checking Green Cards. Now, I am not advocating violence, but I would love to see the INS come into one of those protests with over 100,000 people on hand and attempt to extract those with illegal status. Upon discussing this point with my friend, we realized that if this were the case, they better start elsewhere. (You can contact Jack here at: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?65)

First they should check the status of the bus driver and see if he is a legal citizen, then perhaps check the INS facility and see who is making their lunches and cleaning the bathrooms. Then they need to check the people working the construction jobs that maintain the roads that lead to these rallies. They should then look into the people at the restaurants where the INS workers take their families after work, maybe interview a few cooks or busboys. Or even try to go into any building downtown and check all the Green Cards there. I would bet that in every single building there would be at least one person that does not have legal status to be in this country. Hypocrisy.

So what am I saying? These people are the foundation that this country is based on:

Is that saying not placed in some prominent place in America? If I remember correctly it is placed on an island just offshore to a city that housed more than 8 million people in 2000, can you imagine what percentage of those are illegal or are the offspring of illegal immigrants? So maybe that little saying should be remembered in these troubled times. Immigrants are people also: They bleed, they cry, they want to make a decent living to support their family, they support their country. Anyone who wants to say otherwise should turn on their local news or find a local rally. Tell me those hundreds of thousands of people are not using their basic rights to protest and promote the legislative process in America? And the best thing? They are doing it peacefully; they aren't the savages that these proponents label them as. Hypocrisy.

So while I agree that limits should be placed on our borders and that people shouldn't get to pick and choose what laws to obey, our legislators must remember that these people are human. And therefore deserve HUMANE treatment. We seem to have gone to war to liberate an oppressed people in Iraq, we are spending billions of dollars over there to raise the status of these people, but then turn our backs on the oppressed people here at home?