It already has been written into law. There is an immigration quota associated with all classes of visa (including resident alien visas). Resident aliens are people that have NO intention of applying for citizenship. Ever. The problem is that the laws of supply and demand were not written by politicians. And our economy is creating jobs, and expanding. I could buy in to the premise that illegal aliens were taking jobs, deflating wages, and causing problems with welfare if the economy was tanking and welfare rolls nationwide were expanding. The healthcare point I do buy into. But healthcare costs and service levels have been a problem since before Slick Willy's first term, and several congressional terms later; we still have not collapsed the entire healthcare system. Education is a push for me. Since anchor babies are citizens, it does not make sense to exclude them from education. Even though there is a higher drop-out rate for majority Mexican school districts, I do not see anything that shows conclusively that these drop-outs are first-generation children of illegal immigrants. Education improves the quality of life for all Americans, and most Americans consider education important. The arguement that illegals and resident aliens do not pay taxes, or use bogus SSN's fails after visiting the irs.gov and socialsecurity.gov websites and searching ITIN.
Our economy is expanding in large part due to massive govt. spending on defense, public works, job programs, college tuition, business and farm credits, etc.
That govt spending goes to pay much if not most of the 'salaries' of illegal immigrants, through the trickle down process, I dare say.
Scratch the 12 million illegal aliens and I think we could balance the budget in short order.