Correct, but there are more ways than one to deal with that situation. "Path to Citizenship" doesn't have to be on the table.
Not splitting families up does as does having an actual functional workable outreach program which doesn't seem to currently exist.
It can be done, but it will take time and effort and money and specific targeting.
Big lesson from the O Campaign: Demographics and Microtargeting.
Start with the small business owners. There are lots of them. Win them over. Enlist them to talk to their community on your behalf. Run THEM for office. Get THEM into the local Chamber of Commerce. Standard drill stuff there.
In short, we have 30 days to learn how to become Union Organizers and get a nationwide Machine into place or we are going to be behind the 8-ball forever.
But you know that any good idea in theory will be screwed up by the Feds.
The family member free pass policy wasnt bad when legal immigration rates were reasonable but the massive increase this past decade or so from cultures so different than ours has caused a huge political problem wrt this.
If everyone followed the same rules then legal immigrants might be offended that others get to jump in line ahead of them (faster than them) by coming illegally, but so many family passes let so many immigrants legally jump in line and they feel empathy for others who cant.
One immigrant I know here in Maryland personally got his whole family in on family visas, as he came in himself when young, and he ABSOLUTELY worships Obama (who he relates to because of Os dad) and he calls lack of a legal green card ‘nothing but paperwork’. He absolutely relates personally to illegals living in Arizona.
This is a disaster.