You literally don’t know what you’re talking about lmao. My parents brought my sister and I to north eastern US on a tourist visa. We overstayed and I didn’t even know I was illegal until I turned 16 and was trying to get a license only to find out I didn’t have an SSN. Couldn’t get a license till I was 20 when DACA was passed. As OP said in his comment, my parents are in legal limbo despite submitting their papers over 2 decades ago. I finally became a permanent resident but that didn’t happen till I met the love of my life. DACA was a life saver for kids in my situation but the insecurity of when that’s going to go away was unbelievably stressful. Since you’re clearly very ignorant on the matter, legal immigration is very difficult, convoluted and time consuming as op has said. In my case, parents tried to do it legally but 9/11 happened a few months after we arrived in the US and that made things even worse