1) Secure our border, like every other country in the world does with theirs.
2) Streamline our legal immigration system and determine exactly what skills we want to allow in.
3) Dry up jobs, welfare, food stamps and all other benefits for illegals. Criminalize being here illegally with prison time.
4) Amnesty = illegals have 2 months to go home before we start hunting them down.
That plan I could support. However this BS they are trying to shove on us will not do. We tried blanket amnesty before (’86) on the promise of border security and the border never happened. We cannot allow Congress to fool us again.
I think these two are joined at the hip:
The first in line for the no-skill jobs should be teenagers entering the jobs market for the first time.
The second in line would be all the citizen gimme-girls and other able-bodies welfare parasites, in exchange for "benefits".
In a good economy, both of the above classes should be able to climb the ladder quite well once they develop a work ethic, gain job skills, and discover better opportunities.