Amnesty Is Already Drawing a Crowd

Just as in 1986, the possibility of a new amnesty program is causing traffic jams at the border (h/t Powerline):

The shelter's manager, Francisco Loureiro, said he has not seen such a rush of migrants since 1986, when the United States allowed 2.6 million illegal residents to get American citizenship.

This time, the draw is a bill before the U.S. Senate that could legalize some of the 11 million people now illegally in the United States while tightening border security. Migrants are hurrying to cross over in time to qualify for a possible guest-worker program - and before the journey becomes even harder.

Many migrants said they were being encouraged to come now by relatives living in the United States.

Many of the migrants also are being driven by a desire to get into the United States before the likelihood that legislators further fortify the border.

Read the whole article if you really want to see what we're up against.

This is precisely why the correct approach would have been to control the border first, and then worry about amnesty and guest worker programs later. With the wall and the will to stop the invasion, all of the timelines built into the legalization programs are meaningless. There will be a land office business in forged documents, and I guarantee you that you won't be able to find a single illegal who won't be able to show that he's been in the country for at least two years.