Unless there is some personal incentive for the current illegals to come forward, it will be impossible to ever identify them or their background. They will remain the illegal underbelly from now on.
This incentive to get on the road to citizenship provides an incentive to have a better life and become an American paying taxes, learning the language and improving themselves and their salaries. We then determine who they are, and put them on the track of personal improvement.
We have to break the lawbreaking culture they brought with them from the corrupt Mexico.
I think that is the main purpose of the "path" to citizenship - to find the illegals, determine who is in this country and if possible help them contribute rather than be a drain on services.
"This incentive to get on the road to citizenship provides an incentive to have a better life and become an American paying taxes, learning the language and improving themselves and their salaries. We then determine who they are, and put them on the track of personal improvement."
I see what you are saying. I guess, I look at the path to citizen ship as the carrot, and the idea I put forth about, once deported, there is no path to citizen ship as the stick.