"... want to give them amnesty, guest worker status, shamnesty... "
I have a different take on this. I think it's very worthwhile to "clear the field" as it were. First, all these people will be documented and records can be cross-checked, in nanoseconds. Second, and this is most important, it incredibly slows down the illegal border crossings, so much so that the remaining illegal crossers can be assumed to be either drug traffickers, terrorists, or terrorist-suppliers. We are moving from checking millions through, and LETTING millions cross illegally, to speeding up the flow of the non-threatening ones, and thus pin-pointing the bad guys who still try to cross illegally. That's when we set up the tazers, the infrared cameras, the satelite watch. At least, that's my take. I could be verrrry wrong.