You like to "tell it like it is," huh? Well, sorry, but you're the most full of old codger there is. You'd think you'd have lived long enough to understand our immigration "policy" over the past however many decades.
In this country, we need a whole bunch of labor from Mexico for various purposes. Always have. We've had "guest worker" programs dating back to the 1930's and maybe even earlier. It makes business happy. But racists won't tolerate increasing immigration quotas. So we have this song and dance where we have a meager number of "legal" immigrants, officials look the other way at the border, and every so often offer "amnesty" when those folks who have been here for a certain time.
The only time is becomes an issue is in an a election year. Next year, it will go back to the same as it ever was. Speeding is enforced more heavily than immigration from Mexico.
You've got your mind made up that Congress is sitting on its hands because people are afraid of the Hispanic lobby or something. WRONG. ONLY the nativist wing of the Republican Party, maybe 1/3 of the party, is hard-line on immigration. It's the 1/3 of the party that was Democrat 50 years ago.
So tell me, if Congress were to say "OK, let's increase the number of Mexican immigrants we let in by millions, to give a more realistic tally of the demand for labor," you'd be OK with it? It would be "legal" then? Or would you go ballistic, screaming "I want my country back!!!" Yeah, I thought so.
No, sorry, Congress **CAN'T** do anything about 12 million illegal aliens, even if they cared about it. Do you think the American people want to spend the tax money to sift out the illegals from the illegals and rent all the busses in the world to deport them, only to have them back in three days? Do you realize how absurdly expensive that would be, only to make some arcane "point" about laws that are only there as a joke played on people like you?
And for whatever your point is about rednecks, actually there's a bustling community of white polygamists in Mexico. They've retained all their American customs, and the government pretty much leaves them alone.
And, please, just shut your trap about name-calling, Mister "dimm-o-crap." It's all fun and games except when it gets turned on you, right ?