Since long, the crucial subject of immigration has brought the involved people on the opposite sides of the fence in the many presidential primaries across the US–more so across the states wherein high population of unregistered migrants could be seen. However, seldom it has been a key issue across New York–home to a large number of authorized migrants.

According to a legal migrant in New York, though his family members had to cool their heels for as many as 12 years for the object of acquiring lawful permission to immigrate to the US, he has full sympathies with those migrants who move to the country in an unlawful manner. He added that people do such things only when they do not have any options left.

He further said that unlawful immigration hardly matters for the migrants from the South Asian region, although he fully understands the problem presented by such migrants. He continued that although he does not favor offering such migrants the much sought legal status in the country, he does strongly believe that the handling of the issue has to be just and fair. This is another matter that what exactly is fairness–could be a pretty hard thing to define.

Meanwhile, some critics strongly claimed that such (illegal) migrants infringe the US law, snatch jobs away from the people of the US, and so they must be exiled from the country.

However, many people have strongly disagreed with the observations.