We have too many "legals", given one pass or another, here that refuse to assimilate. Those that want to come to be an American will assimilate.
Those who want to come to suck off the tit, make money where opportunities are lacking at home, flee from oppression, happened to have helped the US in a conflict, or plan to gather political power for their own purposes do not assimilate.
Practically all we've had immigrate in the last few decades have been the latter kind. We either get tough, mean and heartless or we lose our country and it is not America anymore.
If you are under 60, it could happen in your lifetime. Additionally, please remember, full welfare program benefits are given regardless of how much one pays, or hasn't paid, into the FICA and income taxes.
What's real is that if nothing "can be done" when we have laws on the books, immigration procedure in place, identification of the majority of illegals in the country on record, nothing "can be done" when we have "guest workers" and millions of them.
No amount of paper trails or number of agents to handle such trails will actually then be possible to handle the problem. Any identification that has been made or conceptualized, including electronic and DNA sampling models, to date can be forged.
Illegal immigration was a trickle before Reagan ordered his amnesty and became a flood thereafter. There has already been a flood since Mr. Bush even breathed his intentions.
I don't understand how in the world people think that providing more paperwork will solve the problem. It doesn't "track" anything, because it takes personnel to administer the process.
I know why people think so, though. We have been slowly sensitized away from being "mean" and toward being all inclusive, and have become unwilling to take the steps necessary to remedy such a mature problem.
A feel-good approach causes no self-confrontation and is comfortable, whereas the approach to remedy that mature situation is painful and, worse, politically incorrect.
A stone rolling down the hill is easy to stop when it starts its roll, but becomes harder as it gains momentum. Halfway down the hill, it take force, three quarters of the way down the hill, it becomes expensive.
There is one inexpensive way left to us, in my opinion. And it's just how mean we must get at this hour. I don't consider that my opinion; it is cold truth. You are free to disagree, but you will be disagreeing with natural and physical laws to the contrary.
10 holding facilities, of whatever size, in the US, with one cargo rated aircraft active and another in reserve. Crews for both aircraft and personnel for the facilities.
One, or three, holding facilities near the Mexican border served by six buses and crews for each, and personnel for those facilities. The buses remove the Mexican aliens to approximately the center of Mexico and release them.
If the Mexican government takes umbrage, we can offer to turn their country into a ceramic bowl.
The jobs and the facilities can be made temporary and the personnel be temporary. After a while there won't be enough to justify them, and there won't be any flood over the border only to face this.
With all the other benefits, it additionally denies a camouflaged entry for terrorists, which terrorist are currently using it as such.
This takes care of our Mexican brothers and sisters. Similar facilities can be attached to monitor other illegal immigration, particularly Middle Eastern, with longer flights planned for them.
Additionally, by legislation, we deny citizenship to any newborn on American soil, here or overseas, unless born to parents who are both citizens, born or naturalized.
We are at the point where we either do something like this or we lose what most of us have grown up to think as America is. It is either one or the other; there are no other paths. Any remedy you can think of at this point leads to one or the other.
I vote to preserve my country, as founded. I do not want to look back and wail, "We should have done it while we could!".
I'm not hysterical and I'm dead serious. This is my objective opinion reached in the grip of no other emotion or state of mind than patriotism 
