Deport them like Obama did.
In 2023 Democrats have changed their opinion on how to tackle immigration, largely (imo) due to the craziness we saw under Trump's administration: kids in cages, parents being separated from their kids permanently, Trump asking for more white immigrants, Trump saying immigrants are rapists, etc.
They saw how fukked up Trump's administration was and then also realized that some of less-aggressive-but-still-sus policies were holdover from the Obama administration.
The task before Biden is immense. Immigrant communities expect him not just to revert to the Obama-era approach to immigration enforcement, which involved record deportations and an expansion of family detention, but to improve on it. And while Obama failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform or even a narrow bill offering legal protections to “DREAMers” who came to the US without authorization as children, activists see immigration reform as an imperative and are counting on Biden to pass it by whatever means possible.
Though Biden has largely stood by his record as vice president, he has acknowledged that the Obama administration stumbled on immigration, particularly with regard to mass deportations.
Since Obama was in office, the public has become more favorable to immigration, in part as a reaction to the shock-and-awe tactics behind the Trump administration’s high-profile travel ban and family separation policies. The Democratic Party is also more unified on immigration, a topic they once regarded as politically radioactive.
Obama had a mixed record on immigration. Biden is striving to do better.
www.vox.com
So we are in a position where
no one thinks the current situation is ideal.
Dems want to do immigration reform but don't have the votes. Republicans hate immigrants and blame them for everything. More moderate voters eat that up. However, similar to the me-too movement, just because no one called Dems out on their policy in 2009, that doesn't mean they won't get shytted on if they do it in 2023.