>>All illegal immigrants are illegal; that is, they already broke the law of this country. And if do no think that many of illegal immigrants turn to drugs or gang activities, you have your head in the sand.

It is true that poverty has an association with crime, especially for people who come from the worst environment to a land of plenty. In some cases it's because their whole life knowledge consists of seizing what you can because soon men with guns will come and take everything. However, some groups seem less affected: e.g. families of escapees from Cambodian atrocities tend to be physicians and businesspeople by now, not career crims.

The big issue is that illegal immigrants already have millions of anchor citizen kids against whom you cannot discriminate, even if their parents are drug lords.