I figure that illegal aliens, can, if they want to be legal, return to their home country.
Path to citizenship: they have one. They return to their home country, and apply for legal entry while there.
Amnesty: That would be forgiving illegal aliens crime of illegal entry or overstaying their visa if they leave the US and return home.
I would replace ‘chain immigration’ as invented by Edward Kennedy with ‘chain deportation’. When the parents leave, they must take their US born children with them. Such children then are not under US jurisdiction, and would lose US citizenship.
We can discuss immigration again when unemployment is below 5%.
Agreed, but the root of the illegal immigration problem lies with the state of these people's home countries. America acts like an open pressure relief valve for those corrupt and despicable places. If we were to shut down our border with sufficient barricades and manpower, the pressure relief valve would close, and that pressure would be re-directed to the correct destinations.
The Hispanic illegals need to have a revolution in their home countries, and then turn them into mirror images of the US. It can be done, but it would take a lot of courage on their parts. It's just easier to cow down and run to a place where they can freely steal jobs and taxpayer dollars to survive.
If we ever truly shut our border, perhaps they'd find their courage.