Criminal Background check to qualify for legal status will not bring criminals out of the shadows. This will drive then further into the shadows and into criminal activity.
They will still have to be found and that can be costly. When they are found, what will we do with them? What will be criteria used to be classified as a criminal?
All illegals that are criminals do not have a criminal background as many gang members that have not be caught and convicted of a crimes. How do we get a credible criminal background check from counties they are from and will those countries co-operate?
This bill has to be downsized because there are too many things to implement and too costly and will take years to enforce. In that time many things will not be implemented or changed.
What needs to be done first and many nothing else will have to happen is;
stop business from hiring illegals
repeal the automatic birthright citizenship
close the border and
stay with legal immigration to meet our need to fill jobs.
For this to be a nation of immigrants we need to immigration people of all nations and not just south of the border.