There are three factors involved in dealing with the current immigration problems. First, there are usually young kids involved and their placement belongs with their parents. Second, usually both parents haven’t entered the country legally, which means they can be legally deported. Third, the children sometimes are U.S. citizens, they aren’t independent yet, but they can’t just be deported also.
A compromise should allow for the current non legal citizens with young children to be allowed to become naturalized. This should be dependent on a couple of factors: time, standings, and history.
The time they have entered the country has to be during 2007 or earlier, anyone caught entering after aren’t allowed a pardon. The standing of the person is whether they are holding a steady job and have been paying taxes. Finally, they should be allowed to stay as long as they have no criminal past here or in their past county.
This is just a transitional solution, what really should be going on during this time is a restructuring of the current system. The waiting period and the paper work should be cut in half, and the old system should apply to the ones already here. That should be the incentive to apply though the legal process.
This is just but one solution while waiting for the government to amend the old laws. There won’t be a easily solution to this problem, but currently the protests, violence, and the sanctuary of non legal citizens will only close the lines of dialog rather then open them.
