The BIG difference being, they won’t be ILLEGALS when they come back. They’ll have applied (gone through the entire process), if and when they’re allowed to come back, LEGALLY.
Now, how does that play out, in the long run, for citizenship? Just like it does for any immigrant who has entered the country LEGALLY.
Again....that is NOT an automatic path to citizenship. BIG difference. Otherwise, we’d be up in arms about EVERY immigrant (like Stuart Varney) who applies for/becomes a citizen :)
Difference is these will be on an “expedited” process. Plenty of these illegals leave and re-enter the country multiple times as it is. Depending on how expedited Trump makes it, they might be back here just as quick as before. Still doing the same job “Americans won’t do,” still blasting the Mariachi music, but now fully legalized thanks to Trump.