I don’t think there is any way for someone in the country illegally to work toward citizenship. That is what the lobbied for amnesty will do for them.
I am certainly sympathetic to the pain and fear this man and his family are going through. But their whole life was built on the foundation of a crime. I am sure there are families with a breadwinner who has been embezzling for years from their employer. Will their eventual discovery and punishment cause pain to the family? Yes it most certainly will. It will be the same for money launderers and drug dealers. I don’t mean to create a moral equivalency between these worse crimes and being in the country illegally but just wanted to point out that a life built on a lie is tenuous at best.
well.....BYE....
I have ample paperwork proving my materal grandfather was a legal from Ireland (it was the UK when he emigrated), but I have no paperwork at all on paternal grandfather. My dad told us he was born in Canada and came into Michigan around the turn of the 20th Century. I suppose I could go Ancestry.com, but I don’t want to spend the money.