"This is not a question of protecting illegal people in our country, it's a question of respecting the authority of the president of the United States," Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, told reporters at her weekly press conference at the Capitol.
No, Nancy, this is not about respecting the authority of the President of the United States, nor is it about protecting "illegal people in our country". This is about the fundamental obligation of both the President of the United States and the US Congress to protect the citizens of the United States from all threats, foreign and domestic.

Illegal immigration is the greatest foreign and domestic threat to our national security, sovereignty and sustainability in the history of our nation, and the fact that Americans are having to fight and quarrel with our own government to stop a problem the government itself created, promoted and proliferated is the worst betrayal by a government of its citizens in the history of the world.