answer:Long, LONG overdue! LEGAL immigration is fine, but to begin your life in a new country by breaking the law does not sound like a “good thing” to me. The inaction on the part of the federal government is politics, pure and simple: cracking down on illegal aliens will piss off the Hispanic voters. The “beltway bastards” don’t have to live with the higher crime rate, the burden on social services, etc., that those of us down here in the trenches must live with. If someone from Mexico wants to become an American citizen, let them begin by obeying America’s laws. The rest of us have to.