>>You are twisting it and you know it. Premeditation to lose a job and place to live? No. Living in the park is a result of that. You are left with no choice because you have no money and no place to live. The clothes you're wearing and a backpack, bag or duffle with whatever else you can manage to carry. For me it was mostly some other clothes. Bit hard to find work in that situation also.
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>>Crossing the border into another country illegally is premeditated. I'm getting weary of having to turn what I say back around to what I meant after you play with it a bit. How about you? Unless you got something fresh, I think I'm done with this. I'm not big on that whole last word thing, so if you have any closing comments...
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>I suspect that for many of the illegal immigrants, the desperation they feel is much like you did when you had to sleep in the park. Life hasn't given them many (maybe any) good choices, so they choose what appears to be the least bad among their alternatives.
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>Despite your period of homelessness, I suspect none of us here can get close to knowing what it's like to be poor in a third-world country.

I don't entirely disagree with you, but that doesn't mean we still shouldn't try to enforce the law and I don't have to agree that just because they have a tough situation that they should come here illegally.