I don't accept your premise, which is what the Left would like us to believe.
The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from experiences in Georgia, Colorado, and Arizona proving that it does.
First, be assured I am not a leftist, a Dem, nor am I a proponent of amnesty. Second, again, I can understand your not accepting my premise but despite my conservative inclinations, or the conservative inclinations of the vast majority of us, to agree with a non-amnesty measure(s), the fact remains that amnesty, in some form, is a foregone conclusion...it is a matter of ‘when’ and ‘what form’ than a matter of ‘if’.