We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

Sprawl, in general, is a problem. The major solution here is better land-use planning.