Fascinating! I had no idea.
I used to support deporting all illegals until very recently. The Democrats have a point about going door-to-door being unfeasible and expensive. Where I'm at now, I'd like to see a two-year grace period for illegals to take advantage of a path to citizen ship, and if they begin that process, they're immune from deportation. During that period, illegals who commit crimes and are convicted of them would be deported. Afterwards, illegals would be deported on an as-noticed basis.
Illegal immigration is a problem, but if an illegal immigrant is being violent, we'll notice, and if they're not, there's no real urgency in deporting them.
It'd be higher pay than what they're already getting.
But I have no problem with those workers no matter what their jobs are (I think it'd be a lil racist if I were to say that the only jobs these people are good for is picking crops). My issue is with the violent ones. I'd like to see a pathway to citizenship for otherwise law abiding illegals and deportations for the rest.