The subject on its face looks somewhat dangerous politically.  How do you attack illegal immigration and guest worker programs, thus gaining traction among most Americans, especially white ones, while at the same time not angering Hispanics? But really it is not difficult.  I think a good message is to hit home at the problems that illegal immigration presents - lower wages, loss of jobs, draining of resources; these are problems that ofcourse exist because of illegal immigration.  Then you turn to solutions to the problem by asking for tough measures to protect the borders and to protect critical financial resources.  Intertwined in this message is the fact that we are a country of immigrants and that we should welcome new people to our country, as we have for the past 150 years.  You stress that immigrants have the opportunity to go through the common channels of gaining citizenship, and these channels must remain open and unfettered.

This is a very brief overview and probably not very well thought-out.  What do you guys think our message should be because we need to form one quick, and I haven't heard a thing from our party leadership about it.