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The answer is simple:

1. As new criminals are apprehended crossing the border or already in our country illegally, give them immediate deportation hearings with full due process. If they have not applied for refugee status or political asylum, the presumption should be that they have no lawful claim to either. Deport all illegals who are apprehended before the end of the next work day, unless they are able to convince a skeptical court otherwise.

2. For illegals who have an official ID with an address, check that address for them. If they are there, arrest them. If they are not living at that address, then they have lied on an official document. Flag their ID and arrest them the next time they use it. Either way, deport them after a fair hearing.

3. Offer a bounty on illegals. If someone reports an illegal, the illegal’s assets will be confiscated up to the cost of deportation, plus a reasonable bounty for the crime-stopper who assisted with the rule of law. The remaining assets will be sent to the illegal’s home government to be disbursed at their discretion. See how many criminals go home quickly because they don’t trust their own government with their money and want to take it home themselves.

4. Vigorous employment law enforcement: If you have employees working below minimum wage for that job, or if you have a contractor charging less than minimum wage to provide workers, you know or should know that the law is being broken. Employers collaborating in that crime should be charged as much as current law permits.

5. In any case, illegals should be fingerprinted, photographed, DNA swabbed (both ID and criminal investigation), and retina scanned, to make sure they can never reenter legally and never access any path to citizenship.

I imagine once the criminals discover that there is no profit in being here illegally and that there is a permanent penalty, the vast majority will self-deport. I’m okay with that.