Not very realistic. These illegals are not going back on their own and we are not going to have mass deportations. Work visas are not citizenship. Our immigration system hasn’t functioned for decades.
And telling these illegals “just go home and apply” is also very hypocritical. You can’t ‘allow” illegal immigration ( and amnesty under Reagan ), not secure your border for decades, use the cheap labor and then decades later say “You have to go back now.”
we have to own up to what we did for decades, and move forward.
“These illegals are not going back on their own”
Of course not, if we keep supplying them work and benefits. It’s like feeding Bears, keep food around the neighborhood and they’ll stick around.
The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Arizona proving that it does.