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Here's the good news Mr. Barajas.

You, your children, some of your nieces/nephews, at least two of your siblings and your parents should all be deported as the fruit of the poison vine.

Hector, you are an excellent example of that poison fruit. You reside here as a direct consequence of illegal immigration and now make your livelihood leaching off society as a political operative.

If, in response to a properly passed law, Mr. Barajas and his parents became lawful citizens (it appears he may have been one by birth, I'm not sure), then they ARE citizens -- sorry, you can't kick them back across the border. You may not like the 1986 law, but it's the law, just like a lot of others I may not like.

Also, we have a very long and rich history of acts to legalize illegals, frequently very specific ones. Just look through the congressional records of a half century or a century ago -- "An act for the relief of . . . " There are thousands.

Passing sensible, restrictionist, laws now will be a lot easier without it seeming (as your post does) that we want to re-fight, and illegalize people who became legal by act of Congress.

And how far do you go?

My great-grandparents jumped ship in New York harbor rather than risk being 'rejected' at Ellis Island.

So, they were illegal aliens, too.

Should I be deported to the Ukraine, 100 years and three generations later?