[srmanuel]

One thing that would help curb illegal immigration is cracking down hard on companies that are exploiting these people.

Make the penalties hard enough that companies think twice about exploiting these people.

I don’t buy the argument that Americans won’t do certain jobs, I grew up in a farming community, I picked watermelons, tobacco, and bailed hay as a kid, all the kids I went to school with did the same thing, even the women and girls worked on the farms. There was virtually no such thing as illegal immigration.

[packagingguy]

“I don’t buy the argument that Americans won’t do certain jobs”

I know Americans who work in some of the Hyundai/Kia plants in Alabama and West Point, GA.

So Americans do those jobs.

[Vigilanteman]

That and the other logical tool -- if you aren't in the country legally, there are only two benefits you can collect:

• Emergency medical care essential for saving your life.
  
• A humane deportation.

  When the USA offers a large benefits for poverty without regard to the partaker's eligibility to be in the country, it is only natural that we will continue to import an endless supply of poverty and pseudo-poverty.