Don't forget that aliens legal and illegal are also required to register for selective service, and pay income tax. Another pair of rather serious felonies they commit.
Well at least not registering for the draft was a serious problem when I was a teenager. Maybe not now...
Note also that any amnesty granted is not just an amnesty for the "entry without inspection" crime, but for a laundry list of associated crimes in your list and mine.
When do Bush, McCain and Kennedy plan on granting mass amnesties to us citizens for all of our horrid transgressions? Why does their sympathy only extend to foreigners here illegally?
I think the phrase is that they are "xenophilic and ethnophobic".
Yeah, I *think* my father should get some sort of repatriation for having to live in concentration camps and displaced persons camps during/after WWII, while fleeing Stalin's death houses and ending up in Hitler's. This is all because my father's family was waiting to get into the U.S. legally. Mind you, they had to learn English and the Constitution, have a sponsor and jobs, all that good stuff.