This business about multi-generation non-natives is a polemic. It is easy to say but as a matter of course here we, technically, have multi-generation illegals. Yes technically since the Constitution grants citizenship under specific circumstances.
But the point is that illegals are illegal. As such that is how they should be treated. We have rules for reasons and a border is one of the rules! I used to work at a place where a person could be fired for picking up a nickle off the floor and putting it in their pocket, no it was not a bank or other commercial sales enterprise.

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And that's besides the highly trained (at some poorer country's expense) doctors and other experts who keep the NHS going so we don't have to spend money training them.

And, of course, plenty of what such ranters think of as "immigrants" are actually third generation citizens. Eric Pickles was a hard-right Conservative, but when his party started to talk about "sending the Asians back where they came from" he brought them down to earth by pointing out that in his constituency, you could send most of them back where they came from with a bus ticket.