Here is the only "pathway to citizenship" a true conservative can accept:
1. All illegals with no citizen dependents leave the United States, voluntarily or otherwiseAnything less is just amnesty by another name.2. Illegals with citizen dependents must submit themselves for arrest and, if convicted, pay fines/serve time as sentenced, followed by deportation when citizen dependents are no longer dependent
3. Deportees who wish to immigrate can apply through the ordinary procedure.
You really want to toss an illegal alien into prison for just that crime? The desire for a better life for a family does not equate to throwing them into jail with murderers, thieves, rapists, etc.
Give it a break. Having a hard line on illegal immigration should have happened ages ago. Now we have to deal with reality and find some middle ground.
This country was founded on immigration.
Can we say, no papers, no subsidiies? Sure. Can we say, though, that if found you have to go to prison rather than being productive!?!?
Further, one of the largest corrective measures to stem the tide of the invasion is to re-visit the "automatic citizenship" that is WRONGLY given AUTOMATICALLY to anchor babies.
Just because a foreigner is illegally (or LEGALLY) on U.S. soil and has a baby does NOT automatically make that baby a U.S. Citizen, which the Courts erroneously ruled some time ago. NO WAY should American taxpayers be saddled with the cost, nor should the anchor babies be U.S. Citizens automatically at birth.
If someone broke into my house, had a baby, that is NOT a member of my family "automatically", which is exactly what the anchor baby becomes in the USA.