The law is seriously broken. DHS does not have enough visas for the "unskilled" labor in our fields, restaurants, construction industry, gardening, hotels, etc. Your nationality also determines whether you will be deported, and the state in which you live determines whether your immigration judge will be sympathetic.  By international law, you have the right to plea refugee status, but this is hard because of lack of legal representation, and the facts that the courts are swamped. (Consider the facts in the native countries. Look beyond our borders.) We need comprehensive immigration reform.