I have tried to reason out a way to not have immigration reform make all of them legal citizens. How do you make them go back? Some have been here so long they have nothing to return to. Some are our neighbors and we do not know it.
Can you imagine the buses rounding them all up and heading for the borders? Buses border to border? It would be a fiasco!
We have done little to stop the continual flow of illegals...how can it work to remove them now?
Only by stopping their employment, health care, and education can they be expected to leave.
NOT going to happen...so what do you suggest?
5 years and no criminal record and they get a green card and start the process...if they have voted illegally and show lack of respect for our laws they are ineligible?
Where would it end?
Prosecute the employers.
"Some have been here so long they have nothing to return to"
Myth! - The vast majority of them go home at least once a year.
"Can you imagine the buses rounding them all up and heading for the borders?"
That's exactly how they get back to the border when they want to go home for a visit; ask a border agent.
It is going to happen, because it has to happen, and because we demand that it happens.