Immigration

Immigration has been on my mind a lot lately because it has become the topic of discussion in my Spanish class. After watching the movie "El Norte" ("The North") in class, I have seen how illegal immigrants are treated both in their own countries and the United States. I think that it is a very complicated situation, but there should be some ways that we can help immigrants be legalized.
I decided to blog about this topic when I saw an article on the NY Times front page about how "270 Illegal Immigrants were sent to prison" yesterday. I think that it really sucks that there is nothing that these people can do to come into the United States legally. Also, one of the main reasons why immigrants come into the US is so that they can life a better or easier life, but they come over here and are put into factories to do all of the dirty work. What is the fairness in that? The unit changed my form of thinking for immigration because of this.
A question that I had to respond to for my class after finishing the unit is "Do you have any advice for the candidates for the presidency about the Immigration laws?" All I could say to that is, that I don't have any concrete thoughts, but I think that the immigrants who come into this country looking for a better life should feel more safe in the US. I think that it is not fair for immigrants to feel that they are in danger both in their countries and in ours. On the other hand, I believe that the laws in the US are as fair as they could be, for now, because the citizens of the US need to feel like they are not in danger also.
Thats all I have to say about that.