For decades now our nation has been the target of an invasion by millions of people who crossed our borders illegally from other parts of the world, while our powerful armed forces have been engaged against different challenges in other continents. More than two dozen years ago we thought that the quick-fix, magic solution to this de facto invasion of our own land was just to ignore our own laws and to accept that those alien invaders could remain permanently and legally within our country. Bingo! Problem solved, right?