“The US Senate have been crafting an immigration bill have agreed that foreigners who crossed the U.S. border illegally would be deported if they entered the United States after December 31, 2011.”
“People need to have been in the country long enough to have put down some roots. If you just got here and are illegal, then you can’t stay,” a congressional aide said. “The last time U.S. immigration laws were extensively rewritten was in 1986 and those policies have been blamed for allowing millions of people to enter and live in the country illegally, while also resulting in shortages of high-skilled workers from abroad, as well as some low-skilled wage-earners.” At the same time this new bill is planning to inadvertently to up security along the mexican border. But overall, besides for kicking new illegals out and enhancing security along the border (which is a huge legislative problem in its own right already) the US are determining to gear the plan to solve the problem with the already existing illegals that have set down roots- the threat of deportation would be lifted for many who are living in the U.S. illegally. Within 13 years of enactment, those immigrants could begin securing U.S. citizenship.