No woman is illegal ergo no thief is a criminal?

So. I was watching a report on Clinton's campaign and this (no woman is illegal) was Hilary's intellectual come back in response to a person who shouted out that his wife is an illegal. Aside from the strange fact that this person was emboldened to proclaim his wife was a essentially a fugitive, it is quite remarkable that Americans are actually afraid to stand up on this issue on the side of the law.

Surely she jests? Did they pass a law that suddenly declared "No thief is a criminal"?

Later in that same clip a kid was holding a sign the read "No human is illegal." Well, perhaps in a utopian way they are not but within a nation-state framework there can be I suppose.

Talk about twisting the issue and words.

No one is suggesting that people as a species are "illegal." The issue is, as far as I can tell, people arriving into the United States illegally. How is this remotely fair or just to people who use the proper channels?

It seems to me, and I'm just a Canadian, that a sovereign nation has every right to govern itself however they see fit. In Italy, for example, Albanians are shipped back by the boatloads and this is considered a normal occurrence in Western Europe dealing with immigration issues. Italy is among those nations with some of the toughest immigration laws in the EU. Now whether Albanians are attempting to enter illegally is another matter; one an Italian would know.

It may as well be -stringent Italian immigration laws - since governing its own citizens has proven to be something right out of la commedia dell'arte.

I doubt any European nation would tolerate illegal immigration like Americans have in the past.

What's done is done. The issue is now a hot button political one. There are millions of illegals in the U.S. They'll have to come up with something that is practical and fair to all - including those legally waiting patiently in line. The sad thing is that politicians knew this was going on and did nothing and now they face a serious human problem.

Granting amnesty for its own sake is not a good idea - unless it comes with immigration reforms. If it doesn't this will send all the wrong signals. The truth is that illegals willingly chose to circumnavigate the law. The Americans need to uphold their laws. Think this to its logical end if they don't: not pretty.

I really don't see much choice here.