Immigration

Being Hispanic, Immigration is an important issue to me and my extended family.
I am a second generation American which means that my mother was born in the United States and so was I, but it also means that my grandmother and everyone before her in my family tree were not born in this country. Though my grandmother entered the United States legally, held a job for the entire time she was here, and raised and cared for a family, it took her over twenty years of applications and paperwork to finally become a citizen of this country.
Personally, I don't think that our economy can support everyone who would want to come into this county, but I do think that the government needs to start putting more of an effort into regulating and bettering the application process for becoming a citizen and into regulating the flow of immigrants into this country rather than simply ignoring the problem or putting even more money into fortifying our borders.
I believe that immigrants come into this country searching for jobs when they cannot find any at home or cannot support their families and, that if our economy truly couldn't support them and they couldn't find jobs they would return to their original country. Also, while many people are against immigration, we as a middle class benefit from the work immigrants do, many of whom take jobs that those in the United States wouldn't take which allows food cost and the costs of many other services to stay relatively low.
While I don't have a solve all method to offer regarding immigration, I think that we have reached the point where we as a country must focus on organizing and regulating the flow of immigrants rather than trying to cut it off completely.