if you google any permutation of my username and immigration, you'll see I have dozens of lengthy threads on the subject.
Its taken me a while to convert the few that I even have so far.
Oh, I think we're very much on the same page w/r/t immigration.
I think a big part of the problem you might be having in converting those here is that this site most likely disproportionately draws from the upper 1/3 of the black population - folks for whom immigrants are the greatest thing on earth (cheap nannies! even cheaper landscaping! affordable ethnic restaurants in urban areas!, etc.)
Every black person I've ever had the chance to speak with on the immigration issue that wasn't a college graduate working in a white-collar job has been vehemently opposed to illegals. They require no convincing. I mean, did you know that janitors in Los Angeles were once unionized, earning a living wage and able to purchase their own homes in decent areas and enjoy a somewhat dignified life? Or that most of them were black men that either weren't so great at school or unable to pursue further education because of their circumstances growing up? And then what happens in the mid-80s...oh yeah, Amnesty I, courtesy of Ronald Reagan. The rest is history.