If amnesty passes there will be at least 30 million cockroaches who will come out of the woodwork to sign up for their benefits. In Reagan's regretable amnesty, three times as many showed up as was expected, and the situation certainly has not improved since the '80s.
Question: Why would they come out of the shadows? They will have to reveal their whereabouts, pay a fine and back taxes, subject themselves in the future to paying taxes, and get to the back of the line for citizenship. They will also become less attractive to employers because of their new legal status. What happens if they don't comply? What are the penalties and who is going to enforce them?
Please provide a source for your assertion that "three times as many showed up as was expected" during the 1986 "amnesty"
We have seen amnesty before in our country, in 1986, and the record is clear that American taxpayers did pay the cost of the fiscal deficit created by the 3 million beneficiaries under the 1986 amnesty. Of course, the original estimates were that 1 million, 1.5 million people would qualify for amnesty in 1986. Now they are estimating 12 million. But, in fact, 3 million showed up in 1986 and claimed the benefits of amnesty, many using documents that were dubious.