It won't be easy, but it will be far easier & more effective than the other proposals.
Heck - enforce the laws we do have. Go after the employers of the illegals and the “land of opportunity” will go away. Although the illegals are also getting all sorts of welfare - not sure how that works. I suppose that is the “anchor baby” thing. I bet a lot of them are also getting benefits illegally too though (fake ID’s, etc.)
Towards the end of Bush’s presidency I recall lots of raids on companies and housing projects looking for illegals and deporting them. When that started happening, a lot of them left on their own as they were afraid of getting caught.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/raids-target-immigrants-ordered-to-leave-us/
excerpt (from 1997)
“They happen almost daily, part of an aggressive nationwide effort to find and deport more than 600,000 immigrants for whom a judge has issued a final order of removal.”
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Granted - 600,000 isn’t much when looking at 30 million, but it’s a start. Say that by looking for 600,000 gets another 600,000 to 1.2 million to leave (family, friends, etc) - that is some progress.
I still think the primary thing is to go after the employers.
“...change our laws and system so we aren’t pulling people here...”
Difficult to do when we are the greatest nation on erf.