Only certain categories of non-citizens have pathways to citizenship.  These categories include permanent residents who marry US citizens, asylum seekers, and people who have been victims of certain crimes and who have aided law enforcement.  However, there is no pathway to citizenship for an undocumented immigrant who is a mother of children who are US citizens.  Federal immigration policy is broken because it is ripping families apart, so discretion should be exercised in deporting undocumented immigrants until it is fixed.