Substitute the word “millions” for “thousands” and you have pretty much hit the proverbial nail on the head. Many are married to U.S. citizens and have U.S. citizen children. You give them the option sending their spouse down to a U.S. consualte and hoping to get a waiver of the ten year bar. If you were a mother of a two year old and a four year old and someone told you to send your husband out of the country and there’s maybe a fifty/fifty chance he won’t come back for ten years which option would you choose......most choose to stay and hope for a change in the law. That’s why there are so many illegals now as opposed to fifteen years ago. Like I said previously most folks don’t understand this and think people like the Harvard kid are just too lazy/stupid to “get their papers”.
This is a good lesson to not marry an illegal.