Just read Kachar, just read. You post and your setting yourself up..LOL.
1986? Isn't that how long it's been since the two parties have been (cough, cough) working on a bill for immigration reform? Even when some, or many in either party wants to sign a bill, the few that don't want the other to get a "win" shoots it down. Block people in their own party from voting for it. Why? Because they don't like the bill? Because they are concerned for the people the bill will effect? Nope, politic's/ Getting one on the other party.
Even now, one party says they have a bill. Wait Obama, wait! Wait till the new year? Why would that be? Why don't they just put up that bill now, ahead of Obama's x-action that they so dearly fear?
My thought (hears where I get me in trouble).... If a bill is presented now, it wouldn't be when a certain party has control of the houses. It might look as if the two parties actually agreed on something. Or be shot down just as the 1986, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, and....heavens know how many other bills never made the grade.
Economical thoughts as some here have expressed. Many illegals work for way below min wages. Anything to make a buck and feed their families. Those jobs would have to raise the pay to get workers and perhaps entice other unemployed would actually consider working those jobs. Or even be offered those jobs in the first place. Which in turn, other legal min wage jobs would have to compete with all these new openings for jobs and perhaps raise what they pay to get employees for their jobs.