Is anyone going to utter a word on behalf of legal immigrants? They're hard-working too, you know. And they've been totally neglected - by both sides - in the rhetoric that pits illegals against citizens.

Any immigration lawyer can give you horror stories about immigrants who followed the law and had their case ruined by all sorts of incompetence from INS/ICE - letters sent to wrong addresses, lost files, all sorts of bureaucratic snafus. All of which go unacknowledged by a bureaucracy that is massive and, at the same time, understaffed and underfunded.

We know why the right won't touch this issue - they really don't want ANY immigrants coming in. But why is the plight of these hard-working, law abiding immigrants seen by the left as less important that the of the illegals?