Repatriating 800,000 is an unrealistic goal. It will never happen. So the question remains as to what to do with them. Perhaps Reagan had it right.

"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," Ronald Reagan said in 1984. And two years later that became a reality.

But this time actually secure the borders to prevent this situation from happening again.