Glenn Reynolds is DEAD ON RIGHT!
People are talking about backlash, and how these rallies are counterproductive. That's probably right, but I think that's what the A.N.S.W.E.R. folks are hoping for. Right now you have lots of immigrants who want to be part of America. The A.N.S.W.E.R. people have been stoking these demonstrations not because they want to help illegal immigrants, but because they hope to provoke a backlash that will make them angry at America instead. They don't have short-term ameliorative political goals -- they want shock troops for the revolution.
It was no accident that the organizers scheduled the rally for May Day, though most of the protestors likely weren't socialists.
My position is that we should control our borders. That's not anti-immigration. It's rational. Mexico isn't in charge of our borders, and neither is anybody else. America is. If Americans are too cowardly to stop drugs, criminals, and other unwanted traffic, that's the beginning of our nation's downfall. You can be pro-immigrant and anti-open border. The two are not exclusive. Hard working immigrants of all kinds make America strong. That's a completely unrelated topic to the real problem of our unprotected borders.
Next, as a nation we should embrace everyone in our country. We should work to ingratiate ourselves to them, whether they intend to stay or not. Getting angry at people that are here to provide for themselves and their families doesn't solve any problem, it just fuels potential friction we don't need.