Okay, let's say we do legalize 20 million illegals. Please tell me how we keep them from bringing over their immediate family members like every other legal citizen can, or do you propose we bring them in as well?
What you are asking me to sign on to, is making legal between 15 and 30 million people, then signing off on them bringing in anywhere from 40 to 80 million more.
There's no way in hell I'm buying off on that scenario. You can forget it right now.
Illegal immigrants need to go home and take their children with them. There is a fairly stong debate about whether those kids are actually citizens or not. They've been treated that way, but as I understand it the 14th isn't as clear on that topic as some have been lead to believe.
I did not bring those parents and children here. I am not responsible for whatever hardships they face as they get their arses kicked over our southern border.
Those illegal aliens can be free from the penalites of our immigration laws, when they abide by them.
I didn't create this mess. They did.
20 million? no, nowhere near that number have US citizen children and their own homes. those are the only two segments I would put on the path to legal status - as part of a deal that offered border security and employer sanctions. none of this "you've been here for 5 years, show us your pay stubs, and you're in" nonsense.
the folks you want to flow back - are single males who come here only to work and send money back, who engage in crimes, who live 30-40 men to a 4 room house. those are the ones we want to dis-incentivize to remain.