Most pols are afraid to touch the issue. Either round them up & ship them home as most seem to want to do on this thread or do something akin to the Bush plan which is what I have come to think is the best action. The do-nothing approach is a disaster waiting to happen.
Why would you be in favor of any plan that will effectively add more people to the welfare rolls, resulting in even more taxes and give business increased incentive to downsize their American workforce in favor of hiring illegals.....this is an open invitation to businesses to EVADE to break federal law and EVADE even more payroll taxes. That's the problem with these useful idiot politicians.....they paint issues like this with broad strokes and playing on emotion yet they never get around to informing the taxpayers about all the dirty little secrets associated with their "immigration reform" plans.