Well I'm a U.S. citizen already and will not be renouncing my goddamn freedom; just the process to get into the U.S. is incredibly prohibitive. After doing my research with my girlfriend to get her into the country on a permanent basis, I am not at all surprised people decide to do it the illegal way. For a country built on immigration, we sure don't seem to want any more new people.
I mean, unless you're rich, basically.
People seem so shocked about illegal immigration ruining the country, but I think we're really creating the problem ourselves after my experience with the U.S. border and a one hundred percent white Canadian girlfriend. It's the prohibition thing: you make something hard to do and people end up doing it illegally, and when you're not welcoming, they don't assimilate properly (though Canada has problems with being too welcoming which makes people not assimilate properly and then you end up with a pretty broken political system because you have to play to dozens of mini-cultures instead of a unified Canadian culture).
That's more frustrating than my deal, honestly.