If you were President the question would be "can you do what's necessary?" 11 million illegals amounts to 12% of the Mexican population. Do you really think it's a good idea to make citizens out of 12% of a neigboring country? Now take into account that they will be able to bring family members in and make them legal. At three per new citizen that's another 33 million making a total of 44 million or nearly 50% of Mexico's population.
Do you think that's unlikely? When polled 49% of Mexicans said they'd like to come to the U.S. 50% said they'd do it illegally.
Frankly, I believe only one thing will force what needs to be done, to actually be done. I believe that it will take several arab islamo-fascist who learn a bit of Spanish, making themselves appear as mexican migrant workers, slipping across the border, then rendezvousing at a predetermined place and time, each having brought over different components or cash to buy said components and them assembling a delivery system to detonate a chemical biological or nuclear weapon in an American city killing hundreds of thousands of American, before the outcry is so loud that the government on both sides of the aisle finally does something substantive. That's always how it happens. You never get a traffic light or stop sign at an intersection until someone, usually a kid, has been killed by a speeding driver. Conversely, the border problem won't really be fixed until a bunch of Americans lose their lives because it wasn't fixed yet. That's the pathetic nature of bureaucracy. That's just what I think though. It would be nice to fix the problem before that happens, but I fear that it will take a mushroom cloud over a bit city before it gets fixed. I hope to he11 I'm wrong, but then I hoped most Americans would have the intelligence to see the war in Afghanistan and Iraq as the front lines in fighting the islamic war against western civilization, and I've been disappointed on that one also. Americans watch too much stupid tv, don't know history, and are just stupid enough to get other Americans killed by voting when they don't even know what's at stake. That's another fix I'd put in place. IQ tests in order to be a registered voter. But then the democrats would really never have a chance, so that definitely would never happen.
Anyway, gotta get to sleep. Lost too much sleep over this thread as it is. Early reveille tomorrow.