I still think that the "damage" done by illegals is greatly overstated.
Even in California, zombie. I mean, compare how much Hollywood has fucked up your state with how much illegals have fucked it up. Yet apart from the occasional Roman Polanski, no one suggests getting tough on the Susan Sarandons and Oliver Stones and Michael Moores and etc etc of the world.
Frankly, I'd rather have 10,000 illegal dishwashers and migrant workers with their lack of social skills and public responsibility than any ten Hollywood celebrities not named Jessica Biel and their social "consciousness."
Funny thing is, there isn't a single argument being made by the people of Texas, Arizona, and California that wasn't regularly made Hispanic immigrants that wasn't made by the people of New York and Pennsylvania and Massachusetts about immigrants from Italy, Ireland, and Eastern Europe between 1875 and 1960. Those critics also could, and did, point to crime and lack of education and refusal to learn the language and all the rest. (And contrary to the myths told by some English-as-official-language folks, the cities of the East had many ghettos where English was *not* the dominant language for first-generation immigrants. In fact, that is part of why ghettos developed in the first place.)
Migration has never been this sanitized vison that people tell of the Pilgrims and covered wagons and the Protestant work ethic. Its always had a dark side with it.
The only different with late 20th/early 21st century immigration problems in the USA is the entitlement programs that draw more non-working people here. We are merely reaping what we have sown by selling ourselves as the nation of entitlements. We shine these megawatt lights as we yell about all our entitlements, and then we complain of being inundated by moths.
To the extent that more of today's immigrants are about "getting handouts" and fewer are about "working hard" than was the case in the past, why the heck are we surprised. After all, that's what we-the-goddamned-people are all about these days, too.
Finally, consider this: How much of the "bad" stuff illegals do is the consequence of the illegality itself? One of the unintended consequences of "tough borders" is that it tends to discourage/scare away more of the productive immigrants than it does the unproductive ones.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)