“...If you were brought here as a young child, and have lived here without major issues since, then I am okay with providing a pathway to citizenship for you...’
You’re right. However, people who have lived here on a free ride for years owe the US a LOT of back taxes...Pay your back taxes, THEN I’d be OK with it.
I mean... just think how YOU would be in life if you didn’t pay taxes for the last eleven years!!!
I never said they would get citizenship with no cost.... I said they deserve a path to citizenship if they were brought here as a child and lived here relatively peacefully since.
Part of that could be paying back taxes, and other requirements... but I have no problem granting them a pathway to get citizenship.
If however they came here illegally as an adult, no, you don’t get to skip the line...