I'll give them a [censored] path to legalization.
It's the path where they march right back where they came from and get in line like everybody else.
It's the path *MY* family took when we moved here.
There's your [censored] path to legalization.
Well, provide a workable solution to uproot and deport 10-12 million people to get our lebensruam? Internment camps? Cordon and search raids on neighborhoods? They're here. We already failed in controlling our immigration. We encouraged them to come through lack of enforcement. There is no humanitarian process to deport them all. Maybe find everyone and issue them a temp visa and assistance in applying for legal status.
Re-reading you may note I would love to see a locked down border. With that ought to come a streamlined process to legally come here.
As far as paths to come here, others have noted that it was much easier and A-ok when to come here when it was good Irish families starving and when we needed workers in our factories.
Only one 1/4 of my family came here when there was immigration control. My maternal great-grandfather emigrated from Scotland when he was a teenager in the early 20th century. On the boat I presume, through Ellis island I think. So, I think that makes me 3/4 illegal?
Maternal grandmother's people came much earlier, religious persecution(Hugenots),
Paternal Grandmother's people were poor Scottish farmers, mush not have been too poor, ended up with nice land, hog lot was where the 7-11 is in Bealeton, VA. Early 1800's I believe.
Paternal Grandfather's people immigrated and were opposed by the natives, I think they gave them smallpox. 1650 or earlier, to Virginia.
All of my wife's people came from Norway on the boat. No quotas, no questions, just get out there and farm. Seeing a place that was flat and had actual soil, they were happy to go west to Minnesota and do the jobs that east-coast Americans wouldn't do.