I don't understand your "amnesty" what do you mean by registering as a resident of this country? How many people do we let "register"? Why will the cost for a business to hire a "registered" person go up?
With the border patrolled and fences built, the stream of illegals would go down dramatically. It will be easier to catch, identify and deport.
The border is patrolled fences were built in the past. Without a penalty for getting caught it is just a revolving door, they are caught and released OR or voluntarily returned to Mexico hopefully having stayed at least till daylight where they will wait till nightfall to cross again. As far as catching them and identifying and deporting them we do it all the time...but most are voluntarily returned in lieu of deportation...the solution is to enforce sanctions on employers, implement fraud proof identification and cut off public benefits including education and eliminate anchor baby loophole in citizenship.
Of course the other option is to hunt 30 million illegals down, deal with the ACLU in court for years and spend billions in ACLU attorney legal fees as well as the cost of deportation, housing, food and medicine until they get deported and then dealing with having them come back.
No need to hunt down anyone, just use employer sanctions, and refuse them public services...let them go back to Mexico and start a revolution there so we don't have one here....The President needs to say enough is enough everyone out...most will leave of their own once they realize jobs and benefits have dried up. Implement a sane guest worker program that allows for guest workers only after legal residents and citizens are unavailable to fill those jobs-so what if the cost per hour goes up, at least it will be legal persons benefiting from the increase in wages...right now those in the lower skilled jobs are hurt most by the flood of illegals which are depressing their wages and work conditions...We have to choose cheap labor or America first...
What I mean by registering is going through the process of becoming a citizen. Are they here illegally? Yes. Should they go back to their home country and reapply for visas? Sure, why not. Will this force thousands of American businesses to close in the interim? Yes.
It is easy to say, shut the border, collect everyone, tell businesses if they do not turn in their illegals or deny them services they will be subject to heavy fines. Yes, it is the right thing to do. But is it the most practical?
And like everything going on, there is no solution because politicians are up to their eyeballs in special interests. Finally, I read this morning that this should be a Democrat initiative because it is a social problem. Still waiting for them to do something.