[USNBandit]

The problem with policing the border doesn't start with the workers, it starts with the employers. If you dry up the supply of jobs available to illegals they will stop coming.mmthat means shutting down businesses that employ illegal labor. That also means a guest worker program for those industries that need that labor.

I have ideas for carving out previously illegal workers from legal ones, but I am sure they would be undone by another Obama-like administration. From a human standpoint those that support illegal immigration also turn a blind eye on the immense human toll of exploitation, endangerment, and often death of these illegals.

[Norseman]

I have no problem with what you say. The employers should certainly play a key role. But that doesn’t mean we can’t address policing the border, issuing green cards, returning criminals to their home country, and employment all at the same time.

In fact, that’s probably the rational way to go at it, because each element makes the other elements easier to enforce.

As for your mistrust of another Obama-like, lawless, administration, I share it, particularly if he manages to appoint a liberal Supreme Court in the next three years.