Immigration Reform: 1 on 1 really getting to the issues

Today in one of my classes we had a speaker, named Sonny Garcia, come in who works for Illinois People's Action. He wanted to share some of his insight on what it was like to be a part of an organization set on empowering those with no knowledge of their rights and doing something about it. The speaker was an former student of ISU and actually organized marches during the 2006 Immigration Reform was at the peak height of interest. Since then he became a part time organizer for Illinois People's Action telling us about what it was like going to community to community asking leaders within the Latino community was some main issues were. That by going around the community doing one on one interviews he was able to first establish the main issues ailing the community. From there he taught us that by first educating, creating situations of 'what it so and so changed' and through empowerment small changes occurred within the community. He noticed that while education, health care, jobs, and police with racial profiling all of these issues were symptoms of a broke down immigration reform problem. What do you think? Is America creating more issues for itself by having such a strict Immigration Reform?