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I’ll probably be flamed for this one, but I think the root of the problem is an immigration policy that is incoherent with reality.

I think we should do all that is mentioned, but we should add to it a more liberal admission policy along with elimination of the minimum wage. That will help reduce the demand for illegitimate labor, reduce the profitability of human trafficking, open up the market for that kind of labor, and allow us to screen the people who are coming in rather than having the state of lawlessness we now have with them swarming across the border wherever and however they can.

We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can keep them out or reserve jobs for Americans only with the laws we have now and with the resources we have to enforce them.

I’ve got one word for this....AMNESTY

We can secure our border and deport Illlegal Aliens. The Liberal Globalists, No. America Union communists, Hispano-Racist groups may not agree....but with some will, spine, and effort...the border can be secured and the Illegals deported. And, getting rid of illegals increases employement and wages....not anti-American Open Borders liberalism....

"We can secure our border and deport Illlegal Aliens."

How do we do this short of implementing martial law and is that really how we want to live? Whether we like it or not, there are somethings that just cannot be effectively outlawed. Making laws against things that people are going to do no matter what have never been successful and in many cases makes crime problems much worse when its done. Some examples are prohabition and the war on drugs.

The reality is that we have public policies that bring about perverse incentives for illegal immigration and that create a thriving market in human trafficking: labor regulations and taxation policies that are inhospitable to the American workforce with natural market pressures on the employers and an immigration policy that is incoherent with the demand for low wage labor.

My point is that all of these problems need to be fixed to keep the swarm of illegals under control without having to resort to a mass police state that will be only marginally effective.

You can call it what you wish, even label me a liberal and perhaps you're right about that in a classic sense. I call it common sense and rational problem solving.