I think the only way to truly solve the immigration problem is with a constitutional amendment. The problem with any legislative compromise is that the compromise can easily be reversed by a subsequent Congress/President, just as happened to Reagan with IRCA in 1986.
For something like that to work, it has to be a compromise that both parties are willing to accept, which means both parties have to get something out of it. I drafted one for fun awhile back. The basic premise was that Democrats get partial amnesty for some number/classifications of illegals, and Republicans get a bunch of other stuff that amounts to border-tightening and limits. But my limits were pretty tight, so I'm not sure there's any number of illegals getting partial amnesty that would induce the Democrats to agree.
And by the way, when I say "partial" amnesty, one of the parts of my Amendment was a provision saying that anyone entering the country illegally, including those being granted the right to stay in the Amendment itself, were permanently ineligible for citizenship, so they could never vote. They'd only get permanent resident status. And that status would include a provision saying that only citizens could use their status to sponsor family members, relatives, or others to come over. So the group being legalized in the amendment could not then import a bunch of their relatives.
There was other stuff, including a reversal of Phyler v. Doe, and a statement saying that nothing in the Constitution could be interpreted to compel a right to any federal or state benefits to people in the country illegally. States would still be free to provide benefits if they wanted. Oh, and states would have the constitutional right to bar entry to illegals at their own borders, except at designated federal border crossings.
Again, though, I don't think the Democrats would ever support it.
I keep saying this. I say it almost every day. I've been saying it for over two decades, yet the message doesn't seem to sink in for most people.
Break the media-lie-system, and the nation heals itself. The media-liars exist for the sole purpose of ensuring "elite" control of mass communications. They are literally the voice of "elite" control of the government.
The media-lie-system works to elect liberals, because liberals open the purse strings of Washington DC, and so many "elite" make their riches through the exploitation of the government spending and policy, both legally, (through management of government programs and receiving government contracts), and illegally. (through the sale of influence, policy, regulations, etc, like Joe Biden does)
The media-liars are part of the corrupt industry of government, and they control the propaganda the public is allowed to hear, always with the intent to influence the public to support liberal causes and ideas, because liberals in power means wealth for the "elite" and their cronies.
It is a system to exploit government for private profit.
Break the media-lie-system, force the *OTHER SIDE* (us) to have the same air time as the liars, and the nation heals itself. Policies which are idiotic and destructive to the nation will not be supported by the people when they can see people on television talking about how these policies are idiotic and destructive to the nation.
The propaganda system is the lynchpin of politics. It is how people make their decisions to vote. If it feeds them liberal bullsh*t all day every day, the dumber portion of the population will buy into it and vote liberal.
We fix the media-lie-system, and we fix everything.