Derb: What you said is that claiming “they’re just coming here for a better life” puts us on the slippery slope to legalizing bank robbery. This is silly. It is possible to oppose both illegal immigration and bank robbery. It is also possible to believe that both are crimes and that those who commit them should face legal sanctions. But we can make distinctions, too. These are fundamentally different offenses. One involves taking a job against the laws of the United States; the other involves threatening or performing violence in order to steal property. This is not the same thing.