You would be sorely mistaken. My question is not "should we" it's "how do we?" Twenty something years ago, I bought a brand new car. My first. I parked it at my apartment complex. I came home from a business trip to find my new car smashed to smithereens by a drunk illegal with no insurance. He shoved my car into the property's water fountain. Guess who paid for all of it? Guess who ran from the scene and got off scott free?
Your personal anecdote has nothing to do with your defeatist attitude of “12 million illegals can’t be deported”.
And who knows how many it really is.
Make ‘em self deport by cutting off every free anything, and harsh repercurssions for anyone hiring illegals, too.
They stay because they can work, they can get foodstamps/free medical/welfare, fake IDs, and commit crime after crime, and nothing happens. Stop all that many millions will leave.
It’s time to make them feel pain by staying here.