Only thing sure on immigration is that there is no solid answers

I'm of a mixed mind on the immigration protests that have swept across the country the past few weeks.

Almost all of my great-grandparents are immigrants, arriving around the turn of the century when economic devastation swept through southern France and Hungary. They left behind family and all that was familiar, seeking a better life and a new start.

Which is why I sympathize — to a point — with illegal immigrants seeking a better life for their families and who are willing to take any job, even the most back-breaking of work, because it is better than what they can find at home.

I also understand that many Americans flat-out and arrogantly refuse to take these jobs, believing it is beneath them and feeling they are owed a living by the government.

My great-grandparents and their families would have taken — and did take — such jobs. From what I can find out, they worked on the docks in Galveston, Texas, and in the rubber factories in Akron, Ohio, believing any job was better than nothing. Slowly, but surely, they worked their way into better and higher paying jobs.

But where I grow less certain is the demands for rights by those who have no legal standing. I do feel we need a legal solution, which protects the rights of all, and which spells out one, fair set of rules.

Congress needs to put aside petty party bickering, emotions and shameless efforts to court voters and come to a fair, fact-based solution.

Caroline Lobsinger is the managing editor of the Daily Bee.