BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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I think we need a four prong approach.
1. Seal up the border as best as possible.
2. Deport those found here illegally - to the far edge of their home nation, not just barely across the border they obviously have no problem crossing. For Mexico, that would be Merida, Yucatan.
3. Terribly fine companies who employ illegals. $100,000 for each found to be employed should suffice.
4. Allow those here illegally to safely return to the country of origin (or any other country of their choosing) without fear of being arrested while trying to leave.
With these three in place, we will just wait it out and eventually the problem fixes itself. The jobs will dry up and the illegals will leave. Those who stay will eventually be caught and deported. New illegals will have trouble entering, and no jobs to find once they are here.
FINALLY...someone who gets it.
It shouldn't matter if the illegal immigrant is married to a US citizen, if they have children who are US citizens, or how long they've been in the country...if they're illegal, they need to go.
Give them the opportunity to leave on their own. If they fail to do so, any/all property gets seized to defray the cost of deportation.
Those who leave "willingly" should be allowed to apply for re-entry to the US, but they don't necessarily get the right to "skip places" in the line of immigrants waiting to enter.