It's about the freakin' law, the same law that every country on earth has about illegally entering a country. This has nothing to do witht how hard some of them might work when they get here.
We have a duty to control our borders, nothing more, nothing less.
We should have a robust guest worker program where we control the numbers of who comes in and how long they stay.
As to the illegals already here, I'm not for the police stopping every Brown person they come upon and ask for their papers. We've seen that movie before but what I would would say is that if you illegally entered this country and you don't commit a crime that gets you arrested, you can stay but you will never, ever become a citizen by breaking the law. You will never get the benefits of being an American citizen but you will not be rounded up in mass and deported. That's how I feel. I could be wrong.
Plus that removes the whole incentive of the Democrats for supporting illegal immigration because they think they are importing Democrat voters. Take that away and see how fast they change. How do we know this? Because it was proposed before. You can stay but you can never become a citizen and the Democrats said no.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics...more-divisive/
Most Say Illegal Immigrants Should Be Allowed to Stay, But Citizenship Is More Divisive