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My solution from an older thread with a little editting

Do you remember the old Eddie Murphy comedy special where he tells a story of a guy who keeps getting burned in divorces? Well, the guy goes to Africa to get a bride thinking he'll be safe from civil action if it goes south. He brings this bride back to the US and after a few months, she figures out what the American wives get and she tells her hubbie, "I want half".

Moral of the story, if we legalize the folks who are here and set up a guest worker program, they will demand prevailing wages and benefits, so we gain nothing but a bigger population and a bigger drain on social services.

Here's my solution (well, not really mine but piece meal from other places, but anyways). Step 1 - shut down the southern border (cry me a river on Canada and the oceans, the problem is the southern border) for real with troops and walls. Step 2 - give the illegals who are here 4 months to identify themselves. Those who don't identify themselves go to prison for 5 years before getting deported when we catch up with them. Step 2 - figure out how many illegals are upstanding, send the rest back, send the really bad ones to jail. Step 3 - Give the employers 3 months from the end of the 4 to come clean. Step 4 - now, with the employers having to pay fair wages, see exactly how many low level employees we need. My guess is not that many since we have a 4.7% unemployment rate, not a ZERO% rate. Step 5 - create a guest worker program to accomodate that need.

Moral of the story, if we legalize the folks who are here and set up a guest worker program, they will demand prevailing wages and benefits, so we gain nothing but a bigger population and a bigger drain on social services

Wait a minute. How is demanding prevailing wages going to drain social services? Most social services are means tested and the more you make the less you get. I don't follow.

Have you written your Congressmen and Senators with those steps?

Moral of the story, if we legalize the folks who are here and set up a guest worker program, they will demand prevailing wages and benefits, so we gain nothing but a bigger population and a bigger drain on social services.

I'm sorry bud, but you lost me on this one.

If anything, they will at least be getting the minimum wage, and I'm sure more than a few are being held hostage to their legal status by a few unscrupulous underground employers.

But to say that expecting the prevailing wages for a job for anyone is somehow a bad thing, makes me wonder what you are thinking?