Exactly, secure the border first, then deal with the illegals in the country. My feeling is that if they were young children with no choice in being brought to America, give them a path to citizenship. As for those who knowingly violated our laws and Sovereignty, NO CITIZENSHIP EVER! Let them have Resident Alien Status but no right to vote.
Deport on contact with LEO.
The trouble with that plan is that if you give those brought here as children citizenship, they will apply for citizenship for their families, including " those who knowingly violated our laws and Sovereignty."
How about just legal status for the first group. But even then it's diabolically tricky. Dems and cowardly Rs are unlikely to vote for a bill that excludes those who came here as children but became criminals.
Wrong answer. Since when do children get rewarded by keeping what their parents steal for them? Deport them, never to return to the US again, unless they get in line from their homelands, their opportunities come up AND they pay back every damn cent of benefits including education their parents stole for them.
How can they start a pathway to citizenship based on their parents being invaders? They should hang their heads in shame.
I would replace chain immigration (all the family can enter, once an illegal alien successfully produces an child while in the US) with chain deportation. Send the US born children of illegal aliens back to their parent’s home country.
That way the US born children of the illegal alien would no longer be subject to the jurisdiction of the US, and then not required to be given US citizenship.
We can’t do that now, because once the House passes any bill, the Senate can mark it up, and it is subject to being changed to evil, and is more likely to be passed as an evil bill in House-Senate conference committee.