American Politics

I have been perplexed by this entire debate over immigration. I have always believed that American politics was generally two sides trying to accomplish the same goal through different ways. But this debate seems to be different. Here you have a group of people, which are a major part of our economy and culture, that hang in political purgatory. One side says that we should give these people citizenship, while the other wants to make them felons. It also seems that there are few that take the middle ground in this debate. I don't know if that is because the extremist are louder or because of media's hyperbolical representation. And today there are going to be several hundred thousand immigrants taking the streets and some political commentors that see this as an opprotunity for the police to take the streets, check IDs, and bring in the illegals. Doesn't sound like these two sides have the same goal.