This issue is far more complex than you people seem to realize. You might want to start by reading NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof's "Compassion that Hurts" from April 9, 2006

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/opinion/09kristof.html?_r=1

Then, understand that current policies that support mass immigration--family unification, anchor babies, guest workers, etc., will result in the population of the US going from the current 310 million to nearly 440 million by 2050 (Pew Research Center, 2008). Since--as John Holdren, Obama's head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy pointed out years ago with Paul Ehrlich--environmental impact is a function of population times environmental impact per capita, that growth will make it that much harder for the US, the most resource intensive major developed country in the world to reduce ours. For example, the average immigrant (to the US) boosts their per capita greenhouse gas emissions four-fold (Center for Immigration Studies, 2008). 
Better to help people in poor countries help their own countries, for example by microlending through sites such as kiva.com. 

As a child, I recall my fascination with the story of a little girl who was forced to live in the shadows. That book was The Diary of Anne Frank.  The events and circumstances may have been different, but the effect of having an "outsider caste" is essentially the same. Now, we have an entire class of people who live in fear of the state and are consigned to live in the shadows. This should not be happening in our country. It flies in the face of basic American values like freedom, justice and fair play.  Every child deserves to live free of fear. These children belong to all of us, regardless of their color or status -- they are our future. As the adults, we should be compassionate enough to recognize their dignity and worth; mature enough to look out for their best interests; and wise enough to safeguard their future -- indeed, our country's future. The wisest leaders know that the way forward is to encourage human potential wherever you find it.  Anything less will doom us to a similar fate as the regime which once branded a little girl like Anne Frank as "undesirable." 

So, I applaud President Obama for going on record in support of the DREAM Act, but words are not enough...I expect him to follow through. 

Comparing the US's immigration policy to genocide is more  bashing of americans.  why do you want to live here if americans are as horrible racists as you make us out to be?!!! We don't want our country flooded with people sneaking across the border and send them back to the county where they were born and you compare that to pogroms and americans like nazi's? Come on chica.  Where are your letters to the mexican government demanding they take care of their massive amount of people in poverty?  you know how to open your mouth here, that much we can see, why can't you demand Mexico sholder some of the responsibility of their countrymen?  What is the mexican governments problem?  are they greedy or do they just not care about you as their citizens?  if you can agree that mexico just does not  care about their people, then why hang their flag in your rear view mirrior.  proud of what?

Hmmm....weren't you just telling Mary that YOU are Mexican (of Mexican decent)?  Yet, here you are bashing Mexicans. Well, I did think it a bit odd that your Mexican ancestors took that long, round-about route through Ellis Island at a time when the border was pretty porous. he,he. Ah, how many "mother-slips" back was that again, eh Hil?  I believe you mentioned the 1700s before immigrants even started making their way through Ellis Island (they could have come in the front door, since there were no restrictions). And how strange that you refer to your Mexicans ancestors as "they"...aren't you proud of your heritage? Curiouser and Curiouser! 

You know, the only reason I'm responding to you, Hilary, is because you're so damn comical (how nice of ALIPAC to send us their court jester!).  However, that doesn't mean I take anything you say seriously.  I suggest you read Dave's blogs to understand the U.S. role in keeping Mexico poor.  Frankly, I'm tired of wasting my breath trying to educate restrictionists about how the history of U.S. intervention and trade policies have impacted the Mexican economy.  But I'm even more tired of your racist rants about the Mexican people.   

I never read any racist remarks about the Mexican people from Hilary.  Looks like a little spin going on here.   What she said is that the Mexican government doesn't seem to care about its own people and that they should take responsibility for them.  Regardless of any failed agreeements between Mexico and the U.S., the American people should not have to tolerate the violaltion of its sovereign borders and immigration laws.   The American people don't even have a voice in those agreement matters.

Past history has nothing to do with our right to have different  immigration laws today nor are we that weren't even alive back then responsible for anything that happened back then.  

I think it is pretty amazing that someone can tell what color eyes and hair we have in here without even seeing our pictures.   Not all whites have blonde hair and blue eyes.   Whites have the full range of hair color and eyes and even skin color.   Many whites just like any other race are mixed with other races.   I know someone who is mixed white Irish and Native Indian.    This isn't anything new.

Being an American on paper doesn't mean anything.   If one wants to continually blame this country for so many things and constantly put her down, then perhaps they should give up their citizenship and move elsewhere.

"if you can agree that mexico just does not  care about their people, then why hang their flag in your rear view mirrior.  proud of what?"

If this comment isn't a racist personal attack, I don't know what is.  Hilary mentioned to Mary that she was blond, blue-eyed "Mexican." Who are you to tell me that I should give up my citizenship and move elsewhere?  How dare you!  I not only have a right but a duty to criticize my government when it is behaving like a fascist state and creating an outsider caste that lives in fear of the state.  Finally, I've asked you not to address me anymore, yet you persist.  Are you so damn needy that you can't respect woman's request to be left alone? 

" How dare you!  I not only have a right but a duty to criticize my government when it is behaving like a fascist state and creating an outsider caste that lives in fear of the state. "

How dare you write inflamatory rhetoric and then condemn others for criticizing it.   Your request to be left alone is duplicitous.