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What you are describing is amnesty for those who violated our immigration laws and current conservatively (using the figure of 13 million illegals) cost US tax payers $113 Billion per year.

I am NOT discussing Amnesty! Amnesty means immediate legal status. What I am discussing is at least forcing them to work for it. Don't like the requirements that I listed? Then make the requirements even harsher so that the only logical alternative is to go back to Mexico. That is the game the RATs use all the time. "Here is option A. You don't HAVE to choose option A. You can always choose option B, but good luck with that."

... I am NOT discussing Amnesty! Amnesty means immediate legal status. ...

Ah, great dissembling on your part. Per Webster amnesty is the act of an authority by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals. Pardon is defined as the release from the legal penalties of an offense. Deportation is the penalty for the offense of being an illegal alien, ergo not deporting is amnesty.

Instead of all the word games, I'd enforce the law, remove all the freebies and the opportunity to work for salaries so low that they are subsidized by US tax payers through sundry aspects of the safety net.