Here is the thing, and maybe Cruz has backed off but last I checked Cruz was in favor of some form of legal status but not a pathway to citizenship for most of the legals here. Sounds great but it simply will not work. The courts are not going to allow ten of millions living here to be second class citizens. Howls of modern day slavery will fill the airways. And the courts will rule that a pathway to citizenship must be provided. Either that or when the Rats take Congress, and they will at some point time, and they will pass a law granting citizenship.
Only Trump sends the legals back to there home county. If they are not here they don't need legal status.