No, that’s not what is going to happen. What is going to happen is that illegals are going to continue being illegal, and when caught, the cops are just going to let them walk. They’re not going to go submit fingerprints, pay for background checks, etc. They’re going to continue exactly how they’re going now. They’ll continue to get paid under the table or under a fake SSI card, they’ll continue to pull benefits for their anchor babies, and life will change little.
All that will happen is that deportations will come to a crushing halt. Sure, maybe some might go through the process, but most won’t even bother to fill out the initial paperwork.
Evidence? Look at Reagan’s amnesty. Illegals don’t want to work within the system - if they did, they’d be here legally. Line jumpers don’t go get into another line.
All I know is that was enough to change the formerly swing state of California deep blue for the rest of my lifetime.
In 1986 the government estimated one million would apply. The true number turned out to be 2.7 million.
Obama's first executive amnesty, the 2012 DACA Dreamer amnesty, has signed up 580,000 so far, which provided them with ID cards, work permits, and SSNs. An estimated 1.8 million are eligible.
I have no doubt that millions will apply. The bottleneck will be in processing. This is going to take years. In the meantime, deportation will almost come to a halt. There will be no workplace checks.
And we know from the 1986 amnesty that there will be a surge of illegals to take advantage of the amnesty. In 1986 you had to be here for five years before being allowed to apply. Phony document mills were set up blocks from the processing centers to provide applicants with whatever fraudulent documents they needed.
None of this will be reversed. The country is finished.