Illegal immigration does not create queues or waitlists for legal immigration.

But I'll be honest: between the uncited numbers, the clear-eyed, neutral potted history, the italics, and the all-caps "LEGAL," I'm starting to think it would be foolish not to take your argument seriously.

Maybe if legal immigration were more achievable we wouldn't have so many illegal immigrants.

This "they did bad stuff so we have to do worse stuff" idea strips the people doing the second bad thing of their agency. That's false; they have agency, and can choose to do better.