Not exactly. What you're supposed to do to get legal status is apply for a visa and wait.
Still, I can see why you would think that.
But . . . once a person illegally enters the U.S., we have no obligation to immediately skip them to the head of the line, ahead of all the would-be immigrants applying for visas at U.S. Consulates in their own countries and then waiting for approval. We have no obligation to provide them a way to get legal status.
However . . . in a perfect world, these people who are doing what they were asked to do should be less a priority than those who are committing crimes. So why is that not happening?
Because of you.
He tried to concentrate on the criminals and look what happened:
Santuary cities refused to call ICE when a criminal turns out to be illegal. Judges did everything they can to stop ICE from enforcing the law, including assisting criminal defendants already in custody in escaping their lawful arresters.
As Tom Homan warned, this forced ICE to go in to communities to arrest the worst of the worst illegals, thus increasing the danger to the community instead of a safe transfer while the criminal is in custody.
Then . . . when the ICE agents take the risk to make Americans safe from criminal aliens, the mob attacks the ICE agents, and you cheer them on.
You (and those like you) made this bed, the illegals now have to lie in it.
Not sure what that means. But yes, Trump is looking for numbers. The fewer illegals in the country, the fewer people killed by illegal alien drunk drivers, the fewer girls and women raped by illegal aliens, and the fewer illegal alien human traffickers forcing childrent into labor and sex-work slavery.