>Allowing illegals to 'continue to inundate' us is not the same issue as kicking out the current ones. The borders should be seen to, and anyone caught within a certain time frame (say 7 years?) should be turfed out. However, I'm not so certain that it's useful or economically worthwhile to turf out those who've been here 20 years contributing to the economy the whole while.
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>There is a statute of limitations on most crimes (with a few exceptions), and I can't see that this one is so heinous as to not be one of the exceptions. This is not akin to murder.

An ongoing crime has no statute of limitations. Once the crime ceases, most crimes, with the exception of murder and a few others, have a 7 year life - at least in Tennessee.