I'd burn the place down.
The most resourceful method to promote immigration reform is to argue and frame the debate in terms of "sustainable population". Expansion of the entitlement base erodes social security, medicare, medicaid, HUD, green space and parks, water, fire, sewage, etc. When the elderly come to believe this year's 17% spike in their monthly medicare premiums is due in part to immigration (illegal and otherwise), the environmentalists tie pollution increase and diminishing green space to overpopulation, parents and taxpayers realize school boards are shelling out 33% more for non english speaking students, and when minorities are threatened with loss of low paying jobs (construction, lawn maintenance, etc) and welfare entitlements, then we will see the paradigm shift where the fear of loss of benefits overrides the fear of being labeled racist and bigot. Unfortunately leadership in Washington perceives taking this stand compromises their electoral hopes. The level of support is not yet there due in large part to a media that refuses to frame the debate in terms of sustainable population...they like viewers and business likes cheap labor. Yea, I too see the death of the American dream.
That's what I was going to suggest.