“Getting it right” = Arresting and deporting existing trespassers + building impregnable border fence + felony penalties for future trrspassers and employers of these criminals.
Anything less is unacceptable.
Hm, I think it'd be cheaper, and more cost effective, to deploy (at regular intervals) 144mm Howitzers and infantry.
They’ll also need to revise the current statutes that say that after a certain point, people who were criminals for crossing the border illegally stop being criminals and just become civil violators for being here without proper authorization. Completely ridiculous. If you were a criminal when you initially came here, you remain a criminal until you’ve gone through the justice system. I can’t think of any other situation (there may be one) where, without any remedial action on the lawbreaker’s part, he stops being a lawbreaker just by the passage of time. Limitations is different, you’re still a lawbreaker but you can’t be tried.