I think you need to replace 'hispanics' with 'illegal immigrants'.. . That actually is a point I have considered. There is such baffelment on the part of illegal immigrant supporters as to why their illegal status is such a big deal to us that I have concluded they look at law differently than we do.. . However, I don't think they are so totally different that they don't know right from wrong in the typical sense. (Hence the arguments: 'we work hard!' and 'we are people too!'). . Some laws like murder and rape and robbery are inherently wrong whether or not there is a specific law on point. In fact, all countries prohibit these things, the only variation is in the punishment.. . Other laws further a policy which is there for a reason but do not create such an obvious moral bright line. These are laws like traffic laws. Granted that we may need some law, there is nothing inherently more moral about 55 miles per hour than 65 miles per hour. If you drive recklessly and people get hurt, THAT was an inherently bad thing.. . Immigration is in the second category of laws. It is there for a reason, and one reason is to conserve the resources to pay for people who foot the bill. If you follow through the impact of illegal immigration, which includes use of scarce resources, etc. the effects are similar to stealing. However, I think illegal immigrants do not internalize that or see directly how they impact the system. They see the system as something so large their own impact seems to them insignificant. They see their coming across the border to be the one person more than alloted that year as 'not all that big of a deal', rather like driving 56 miles per hour.. . We see the total numbers, the undesirables within the group, the drop in standards of education and health care, and see total justification for the existance and enforcement of the law they are violating. We don't see it as a one time violation, but as something they continue to violate so long as they are here and using the scarce resources meant for others. When we say we believe in the rule of law, it means we agree with the principle that laws have a purpose, and that it is truly wrong to break them.. . I'm pretty sure most illegal immigrants would consider laws like murder to be just as bad as we do. Many non-American cultures don't consider the 'prohibitionary laws' to be as important, and some illegal immigrants may be from cultures like that. However, there are probably people legally here who view them just the same.. . I think we have every right to enforce our laws, I just suspect that this time we are going to work out a solution somewhere in between.. . I think we need to really, truly secure our borders, but once we do, I think some provision is going to have to be made for people already here.