I'm with you Jerry; I think anyone who legally immigrates here from a foreign land should have to provide verifiable proof of citizenship. Is it convenient? Not at all. Is it right? Maybe not. But something has to be done and the system has been broken for so long that fixing it is going to be painful for some. It's going to be a necessary evil until things calm down. Once that happens, then maybe the necessity of having to carry ID at all times will be relaxed. Blame the corrupt gov't, not what has to be done to fix the problem.
Like it or not, we have an illegal alien problem. If the feds had enforced the laws from day 1, we wouldn't be in the pickle we are in today. And I don't blame only this administration because immigration laws in one form or another have been in the books since forever, but this administration is the only one with the balls to actually sue a state for doing what they failed to do. Not only that, but doesn't the Constitution, which the president is sworn to uphold, say the president must protect against invasion and to see that laws are upheld? I'd say on those two points alone that he is a prime candidate for impeachment.
Sure, many illegals are here and are legitimately trying to make a better life for themselves. But they need to do it legally just like every other immigrant who waited in line forever. It's a slap in a legal immigrant's face because they did it the right way yet the family of illegals down the street simply snuck across the border and gets the same benefits they do. I've spoken to several people of Hispanic descent about this topic and they feel similar as I do (to varying degrees - I am a bit more hard-line about it than most).
You can see how we went from bad to worse as you go down the dates of immigration law history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...migration_laws. And this, if correct (as of 2006), shows why California is in the trouble it is in today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal..._United_States