>As Tracy pointed out, you are very good at stating how inadequate the system is - and providing very good references - but you have not addressed even reasonably, to me anyway, the question of them being here illegally.

Then I can only repeat it shortly: that's INS's job (or whatever they are called this week). Now why wasn't the INS doing its job for 20+ years is not something I can address, but I can guess that they were just doing the bidding of the gov't that's their boss. Now why would gov't want to have 12 million illegal aliens? Hint: who was in power all that time? Hint 2: who stood to gain from this?

I have some answers, and I've already outlined them in previous messages. If you feel like dancing another round with me, we can take the rest of the week.