Illegal Immigration

I have a pretty strong feeling about this topic because i feel like illegal immigration should not be an issue and these people shouldn't even be aloud in our country.  I have nothing against people that want to come into our country for a better life and a better opportunity because thats what all people want. But, these people have to wait a certain amount of years to obtain citizenship.  The problem I have with this is that people think they can just run across and live their life like nothing happened while they take jobs and housing and opportunity away from legal Americans.  That is not how this country should be and thats why the border control should be maintained and upgraded to stop all possible situations.  If someone wants to become an American, then they have to wait like every other person not born in the United States and thats how it will be.  There should be harsher consequences for people trying to do this illegally and hopefully soon our government will figure this out.