The Immigration Protests

Wesker, a number of politicians have brought up your point (about the flags) and have even said that they started as sympathetic, but after seeing what seems to be an anti-American sentiment and only unity in the "mother" country, they now back the proposal.

What worries me about this is that most of the protestors do not understand what the issue is about. I teach at a school on the Mexico/US border. Many of the students are mad because other people tell them to be mad, but they have not actually read what the bills are about. They say "oh they want to kick the Mexicans out" and I have to ask them,"Is t he bill only about Mexicans?"
"No..."
"Is the bill about people who were born in the US?"
"No..."

We have really long conversations of teeth pulling until they realize that it is really not about what they think it is about!

On a somewhat unrelated note: I can understand that it is a pain to actually obtain United States citizenship. Not as hard as some other first world nations (even as a well educated adult, I still wouldn't have enough points right now to become Canadian for example), but the pages of documents that you have to fill out, provide, understand and so forth can be overwhelming. I wonder that if our process made more sense and were refined, we might find more people willing to use the legal routes...

Jam it back in, in the dark.