Enforcing the law, deporting illegals who have been arrested, and restricting welfare will be sufficient enough to encourage many illegals to leave. President Bush, IMHO, has encouraged more to come.
Please give the killing, Nazi,police state stuff a rest. Thank you.
We try to do the first two. The problem is that we cannot do ENOUGH such enforcement to actually deter illegal immigration, absent a huge increase in the government payroll and the intrusiveness of law enforcement. Doingg the third will require some form of national ID--and that's another hot-button issue for conservatives.
This is an issue that cuts across multiple areas of conservative thought--enforcing the laws on the books vs. individual liberties vs. limited government spending--and does so in different ways on each major issue.
I agree with restricting welfare, but the vast majority aren't on welfare. They are making your beds in the hotel you stay at or cleaning the toilet in the office bathroom.
Add to that fining and jailing those who knowingly hire invaders (or omit background checks) and passing laws where US citizens can claim wages they would've gotten from employers who hired non-citizens instead.
The 80% to 90% of US citizens who are disgusted with the lack of respect politicians and corporate types show for citizenship and the borders will be accused of all kinds of things by those who try to tell us how to think. Nothing will change until politicians in the mold of Representative Tancredo wake up and see that this is a winning issue.