This is why I think the US needs to have a rolling immigration registry where you get automatic permanent resident status once you've lived XX+ years in the country (voters can decide the conditions, if it should only apply to people here legally or not)
There are many cases where people come over on non-immigrant visas and their kids have to leave the country when they turn 21, even if they've spent all their lives here legally, because US immigration law doesn't provide any time-based path to permanent residency.
I'm generally supportive of anything that helps eliminate second class people in the US. We shouldn't have a permanently exploitable group of people. "All men are created equal" should be what we live up to, nothing less is acceptable.
Just being here long enough should be enough proof to get you into the citizenship pipeline.
There are many cases where people come over on non-immigrant visas and their kids have to leave the country when they turn 21, even if they've spent all their lives here legally, because US immigration law doesn't provide any time-based path to permanent residency.