[gawd]

it denigrates those who have made enough of an effort already to assimilate by pursuing LEGAL status.

Likewise, ending the Prohibition denigrated the millions of Americans who obeyed the law and didn't drink no matter how much they wanted to...

You cut your losses, admit a mistake, and go on to a brighter future.

[liberallyconservative]

The parallel you're attempting to draw here looks rather perpendicular from where I'm sitting.

"Prohibition" as compared to ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION... right.

There is no need to change the current laws prohibiting illegal immigration, unless it is to make them harsher and actually enforce them.