Once and for all

Lets get this straight...

According to Wikipedia:

"Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen."
Citizenship often also implies working towards the betterment of one's community through participation, volunteer work, and efforts to improve life for all citizens.

Law (from the late Old English lagu of probable North Germanic origin) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments of/for those who do not follow the established rules of conduct.

Illegal, or unlawful, describes that which is either prohibited or not authorized by law. In general, conduct is made illegal by statute, rule, or regulation.

Rules make conduct illegal in a non-legal setting. For example, rules often dictate how a game is played.

Statutes make conduct illegal and are punishable by law. Violation of a statute can result in civil forfeiture or criminal prosecution.

Regulations are created by administrative agencies. Violation of a regulation often results in administrative law proceedings or legal action.

Now given these three definitiions, leaving all of the emotional, political and social smoke screens, are these 12,000,000 undocumented workers entitled to anything? Are they breaking the law? Don't lose sight of the facts people, there are hard truths to be dealt with here and there is no easy answer, but we need to start facing them and dealing with them. Starting with our borders and then (only then) dealing with the failure of our country to deal with the undocumented workers who are already here, with lives and families.