Comprehensive immigration reform would have to be a bipartisan plan to succeed. 
But one problem is that divisive issues get voters to the ballot box, and illegal immigration fears and fury got Republicans sitting in the White House.  
 So I really hold little hope for what we need, strong borders with strong laws that enforce America's need for safety together with a policy that has the heart to recognize that America let all this happen, in that it ignored the porous borders as a way to get badly paid hard workers into the agricultural work force.  We owe the Dreamers as their parents were, in a way, encouraged to flout immigration laws so that fields could be picked.
Dreamers stay, new border restrictions that greatly penalize employers for hiring those in the country illegally, and we all move on.
Open borders would kill any hope for national health care or other progressive programs, and that is something liberals need to understand.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon