Illegal immigration is endangering and destroying American safety, finances, education, and culture.

I did not claim that FAIR made up the statistics. I claimed that their biases would cause them to get certain statistics and interpret them in ways that further their cause. I brought up SPLC as an organisation that supports my viewpoint, just as FAIR supports yours. Americans should spend money on Mexican schools as part of foreign aid. But as giving more money to some of our schools helps Mexicans and full-blooded Americans, it works out to a great bargain. 1. The children of illegal immigrants are US citizens. You claim this is only through willful misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment. Let's seee what the fourteenth amendment says in regards to children born in the US. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." No one is "misinterpreting" that to allow children of illegal immigrants to be citizens. If the intent of that part of the amendment was to allow the children of former slaves to be citizens, that could have been done by executive order. 2. Hizbollah using open borders to sneak in as illegal immigrants is not "illegal immigrants" causing problems. It is terrorists causing problems. That's why I brought up the idea of Hizbollah sneaking in as students-- we see no problem with students, so that part of your argument is wrong. 3. Perhaps Mexicans are telling us to "Go back to Europe!" because we are telling them to "Go back to Mexico!". Parts of what is now the US are former Mexican lands (parts of Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and other states). Perhaps that is why some Mexicans are claiming this is really their country (as you said in round 1)-- part of it was their country, and they want it back. If Canada took Alaska, we would want it back. Mexicans want their land back. 4. I brought up the Europeans because they (and many Americans are of European descent) came in (against the wishes of the people here), but now we will not allow the Mexicans in. 5. Okay then, the trash is detrimental to society. I'll agree with that. But our society is still around, and seems in no danger of vanishing. Remember, your goal was to prove that "illegal immigration is endangering and destroying American safety, finances, education, and culture." You have shown some examples of damage caused partly (perhaps even mostly) by illegal immigrants, but you have not shown that there is destruction of American safety, the American economy, American education, and American culture. The attacker must vanquish. The defender need only survive. Or, as applied to this debate, you must prove that illegal immigration is destroying all of American safety, finances, education, and culture to win. I must only prevent you from proving it. I agree that illegal immigration is a problem, but not nearly as severe as you claimed. I feel obligated to defend illegal immigration, because for many Mexicans, it is the only option they have for a good life. We should be glad that people are willing to go through so much to be in America. If anything, it is a HELP to this nation.