For full disclosure, I'm a legal immigrant to the U.S. who is still in the 'green card' process, which takes many years, lots of legal fees and hoops immigration authorities make a legal immigratn jump through. Illegals face none of these hurdles and I have no sympathy for any of them. If they want to be here for work, then let them come legally. The last, Regan amnesty program flooded immigration wioth more work than they can handle and are just no starting to get caught up. With this new amnesty wave, legals like me will never get our adjustment of status.
I agree, the laws should be changed with people like you getting to the head of the line for citizenship and those who jumped the border pay a fine to keep employment in the US.
That said, what do you think of Glenn Beck who when he was under the age of 18, took a job whose work hours were prohibited by law and took away that opportunity to a person(over 18) who was legally allowed to work those hours.