The issue focused on how law enforcement should protect law-abiding Americans from criminal illegal immigrants. The federal government has made significant progress in building a legal system that allows law enforcement to handle illegal immigrants. But many legal immigrants who enter the country illegally are law-abiding. They have legal rights to work, to study, to travel, to speak their language, and to live in the country they came from. As a result, they are not in any way a threat to our security. The rights of legal immigrants are