Yes, it is a privilege to be a US citizen. The more I watch the news and read the papers and see people going without, while we have so much, enforces that.

I'm not advocating a free-for-all. What I want is for people who are working and adding to our nation's economy, to be recognized as productive individuals who have the opportunity to become legal residents of the US. Educate these individuals on the proper way to go about obtaining citizenship. They then need to and should be required to immediately go about entering into that process. It is and should continue to be a requirement to maintain their employement. Unfortunately, not all employers go by those rules. Anyone just milling about and not holding down a job, is a whole other problem that needs to be handled differently. Those individuals are the drain on our economy.

Clearly there are many sides and opinions on this very serious issue that, in one way, or another, impact all of us.