The immigration debate. When is it good for America, and the immigrants?

   This is a hotly debated topic and Ive given a great deal of thought  if I should voice my opinion on it.  First I should say I have some experience with immigration, and various immigrants on several levels.  As a horse trainer I have employed illegal aliens on more than one occasion.  First let me say I paid them $10.00 per hour.  That is what the work at their skill level deserves.  I have also employed legal immigrants and various other legal citizens to do that job.  I want this point to be perfectly clear.  The quality of work, that you get from an illegal immigrant IS FAR SUPERIOR than what you get from a legal one.  I believe this is because basically here in the United States we allow two basic social and economic classes to immigrate to this country.
     The average illegal immigrant coming from Mexico or  South America has little education if any.  They are used to a lower quality of life so much so that by the time they get here.  They are willing to do anything for work.  They also have learned to live and accepted the fact that they can live at the poverty level here, Which still far exceeds what they are used to in their own country.  They send the vast majority of their money home to their families.  When you include just how far the American dollar is spread around the world, the economies that we keep afloat are more that just our own.  These immigrants never intend to become legal.  Their entire life has been one struggle or another, they are so poorly educated that they literally live from day to day.  They are so used to that existence that they continue to live that way here.  When they do marry and have kids, usually the wife works as well, they are awesome at pooling their resources and some of them raise their kids to join the work force illegally asap. Some of them actually care about getting their kids educated and want them to have a better life.  This group is by far in the minority.  I have seen first hand the housing that is available and provided for this type of illegal alien worker.  It is barely better what the slave owner supplied to the slaves.  In my opinion that is not they type of immigration that should be promoting in this country.
     On the other hand you have people from Canada, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East that are educated or come here for their education and are forced to go home when their visas are expired.  These are the individuals the buy businesses, or start up small businesses or by motels or car dealerships or corner stores and provide employment and pay taxes and educate their children and have immigrated legally and the very idea that allowing people from other places to short cut the system totally undercuts the hard work they did to get here.
    Our immigration system is broke.  Period.  Granting immunity is not the answer.  The same old rules we have are not the answer.  Hiring an immigration attorney for $10k is far from the answer.  A border that we can walk across is not the answer.  I understand first hand that most of the jobs that illegal immigrants do, legal American citizens don't want to do.  But allowing them to live in hovels without proper health care is not the answer either.  Neither is sending home the educated, tax paying money earning immigrants because their time has run out and they have to go back home for 5 years before they can re apply.
    Don't you think its time that our elected official started doing the jobs they were elected to do???