My attitude on immigration has changed over time depending on where I live and what I experience.
I currently live in an city where about 94% of the population is white and affluent.
Most of the labor, hard work is done by immigrants for reasonable wages without benefits.
When I had a 30 foot palm tree removed I got three bids. $1000, $1000, and $400.
The $400. bid was from a Latino tree service. 4 workers, all day job. Spanish speakers, most likely undocumented.
In my affluent seaside town most of the Resort, Hotel workers, custodians, are these illegal aliens.
In the last 20 years the home builders moved to contractors that use undocumented because they are the non union, low bidders.
Of course the undocumented do all of the farm labor in this state. California is the breadbasket for the U. S., we produce more food crops than any other state.
To call these people criminal is not fair. It is ironic that all of the business owners that support the GOP would use all of their influence to stop the boarders from ever being truly sealed. The GOP uses immigration as a wedge issue to solidify the base. It is all just politics.