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One of my primary objections to this is that it allows the MILLIONS of illegals who came here WITHOUT authorization to effectively "jump the que" and cut in line in front of those who stayed home while pursing LEGAL immigration channels. 

There should NEVER be a "path to citizenship" for people who broke the law because to offer that incentivizes future lawbreaking just like Reagan's stupid amnesty in the 1980's incentivized all the illegals who have come in the ~40 years since. 

My position on immigration is simple:

• No Amnesty, ever. 
• No "comprehensive solution" which is a political cover for amnesty, ever. 
• No Citizenship for illegals, ever. 
• The 14th Amendment was written and passed to deal with former slaves and was NEVER intended to grant citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.  Further, the text "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States..." excludes lawbreakers because until they are apprehended they are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".  An interpretation calling for citizenship for kids born here to illegals incentivizes lawbreaking and is flat out ludicrous. 
• Go home and anyone who came illegally or overstayed a visa goes to the back of the line. 
• Legal immigration should be restricted to those who have a verifiable job with a sufficiently high pay that their contributions to SSI and Medicare  will be sufficient such that those programs will be better off with them as participants.  This will necessarily be age and income based.  Both systems are going bankrupt so an average wage, even for an entire lifetime from HS Summer job to post-retirement employment is not enough.  Thus, even a youngish prospective immigrant would need to have an earning capacity well above average.  As the prospective immigrant ages the problem gets worse for actuarial reasons.  Thus, a say 50 year old prospective immigrant would probably (not doing calculations here, just guessing) need to be earning around 10X the average wage to even be close.