They are here and have been working here
Pretending they don't exist is not a plan
Pretending you can round them up and send them home is not a plan
Give them work Visas. Those who work hard and pay taxes are on the path for eventual citizenship.
Practicality of deportation is not a defense for what they did and for the plague-of-locust -caliber damage that they have done to the economy and various trades and our blue collar folk.
Surrender should not be an option.
Had we the courage, we would make them self-deport.
Make it illegal to give them a job or to rent or sell them housing or automobiles or to provide them with schooling or social services or medical services or financial services or international wire-transfer services and a variety of other things... and put teeth into the legislation... even giving the Illegals six months notice prior to implementation... and suddenly you've got the better part of 12,000,000 falling all over each other scrambling for the borders at their own expense, with all due haste, and not a penny spent rounding anybody up or detaining or processing them...
But we won't.
Having a Sovereign Nation of our own was nice while it lasted.