The current legislation is a dog's breakfast, with holes you could drive an aircraft carrier through. How the hell does an illegal immigrant show how long he's been here? I'm not happy with the "deport them all and kill all the employers" line of thinking, either.

It seems quite simple to me:

1) Turn off the flow. Build barriers, of whatever workable kind, on the border.

2) Come up with a rational plan to deal with those who are already here. Deporting them all is ludicrous. So is a blanket amnesty. There are many different situations, and the plan has to work with all of them. There are people here with citizen spouses, and citizen children. There are felons. There are other categories. It's going to take time to do it right, and the Congress, as usual, is panicking and turning out a load of crap.