I can’t see anyone creating an impossible standard for citizenship for the illegals, for one thing, that would have to happen after the system and politics states that they are already entitled to it.
I think the politics are purely citizenship, or no citizenship, just like the moral issues is.
The moral issue being, should illegally entering America and all that means ( a life of crime and forgeries, fraud, criminality, etc.), now be rewarded as having worked, and now merely be called another type of legal immigration and another way to become an American citizen.
I’m with you. But I’m not talking REAL solutions. I’m talking politics. :-)