They’re undocumented. They don’t have documentation proving they’ve been here 25 yrs. Or 10. Or 5. The plan is a nightmare/mess. If most of them lie, then between 20 and 30 million people will have to be investigated. Do you have any idea how expensive that will be—and how unproductive?
The plan is simple. Build the wall. Enforce existing laws. Require E-Verify. And dry up the supply of free bennies that now flow to illegals.
Problem solved.
An illegal alien who has been in the United States for 25 years as “part of the community” (an active member of La Raza perhaps?), who “attends a church” (one that offers sanctuary perhaps?), who killed an American citizen in East Los Angeles or Phoenix or Albuquerque maybe 5, 10 years ago (and was never arrested) would be pardoned/amnestied under such a cockamamie approach. There are so many holes and loopholes through this thing it is ridiculous. Illegal is illegal.