As long as the government places arbitrary and unnaturally high barriers to peaceful entry and naturalization there will be an illegal immigration problem.
Here is a good story about the difficulties faced in gaining citizenship.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1098723.ece
Much of the bureaucracy surrounds weeding out those who are attempting to gain citizenship through one of the loopholes/fast tracks the government has created, i.e., marriage to a citizen. If we just made it easy for them to gain citizenship, without marriage to an American, there would be no need to investigate the marriages. We have created a need to conduct an extremely invasive process one that is offensive to anyone who cherishes their privacy. Why?
These people just want to be citizens. Even those with sham marriages are not attempting to evade the law in any meaningful way. They are simply attempting to satisfy a stupid law.
Here is a good story about the difficulties faced in gaining citizenship.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1098723.ece
Much of the bureaucracy surrounds weeding out those who are attempting to gain citizenship through one of the loopholes/fast tracks the government has created, i.e., marriage to a citizen. If we just made it easy for them to gain citizenship, without marriage to an American, there would be no need to investigate the marriages. We have created a need to conduct an extremely invasive process one that is offensive to anyone who cherishes their privacy. Why?
These people just want to be citizens. Even those with sham marriages are not attempting to evade the law in any meaningful way. They are simply attempting to satisfy a stupid law.