Illegal immigrants want to stay, become U.S. citizens

Exclusivity. Everyone likes to be better than their neighbor. I think that is very possible that this sense of superiority is more entrenched in middle class Americans that it is among the elite.

Is it really such a crime to want to be American? It is no such an exaggeration to say that we rule over most of the world that matters. We are accorded every respect, we are deferred to when we traveled abroad; a simple American official has more power that a foreign king. The very least man who can call himself an American, albeit a member of the lower classes he might be, holds an immense advantage over any other citizen of the world. Too poor to own a single home, he is still and yet a member of the people that rule the world. It endows him with a precious exclusivity no other can bestow.

Recently the Senate On October 24, 2007, The DREAM Act failed in the Senate to receive the 60 votes required to break a filibuster attempt. Is a bill that has been introduced several times in the United States Congress that would provide a path to American citizenship for immigrant students and those wishing to join the military. Currently, in the United States a child can only obtain their immigration status though their parents, there does not exist an independent method. Many individuals brought here as children remain without a permanent status despite having naturalized citizen or legal permanent resident parents or spouses.
If the child was brought into the country illegally there is no method of legalizing. Even a return back to the birth country does not guarantee a path to legal status. If they attempt to come back legally they are often subject to decade long bans and student, tourist, or work visas are rarely given to people with such strong connections to the US. An estimated 65,000 immigrant students who meet these requirements graduate from high school each year.
How can we permanently close the doors to citizenship to people with whom we must coexist? It is a bad father he who brings up his son on a regimen consisting of nothing but daily beatings - when that son grows up he loathes his father, he doesn't love him or admire him. If we flog our kindred we will have to co-exist with people who loath us for our cruelty and hypocrisy. If we prevent them attain their citizenship, they will loath us for our snobbery. If we impoverish them by not letting them participate fully in the country they live, they will loath us for our bad faith. If we take them from their homes to take them away to the country of their parents we will have to coexist with people who loath us for our callousness. How much loathing does that total? More by far that we can afford to incur from people who live in the same lands we do ourselves.