I'm kinda bias cuz my mom brought me when I was 3 years old for a better life, we came from a Rancho in Michuacan, no paved road no nothing, no running water at the time. Now she did what she could at the time to become legal after living and working here for 5 years. Paid a $1000+ fine and this was in the late 80's so it's no small chunk of change.
Illigal Immigrants are like a modern day slave, they just pick fruits and what not instead of cotton, now all this about is they take jobs and keep wages low? I've picked peaches, I hated that shit, they come here and do it with a smile on their face. How do they keep wages low? Employers decide on them, basically the corporations run the economy, not the government.
Now, all this talk about how they don't pay taxes and what not is bs, weather they get a check stub, or under the table, they got to buy grocerys, gas, clothes, water, rent a place to live, electricity, etc, etc.
I'm all for this guest worker and amnesty, if the government actually could account for them, the majority would pay the fines to be legal, generating alot of extra money for the gov. and they would have a place in society, be able to get drivers licenses and insurance.
But yes this does seem to kind of pop out of no where, I guess the media had nothing else to cover, and every one's focus gets off the war.