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Dry up those two wells and ...the illegals will leave on their own.

If only it were that easy.

Even if we cut off legal means to earn a living, illegals would simply join the underground economy, just like millions are already doing now.

Even as we speak, illegals are being paid cash under the table, and they are buying (non-taxed) consumer products at inner-city hock shops.

No, my friend, it will take a threat of incarceration and forced deportment IN ADDITION TO DRYING UP ILLEGAL JOBS to stop this insanity of unchecked illegal immigration.

"Even if we cut off legal means to earn a living, illegals would simply join the underground economy, just like millions are already doing now."

A federal law making it a crime to employ an illegal shouldn't, and I expect wouldn't have any exemption for those who employ people by paying them "under the table."

Federal prison time would be a pretty discouraging threat to someone who is trying to save a few bucks an hour by hiring an illegal over paying a US citizen.

But certainly, if making it a crime to work as an illegal would get the illegals to leave the US, I'd be an advocate of that, too. My fear is that such a law would turn US penitentiaries into housing facilities for millions of illegals and become an expense we can't handle.

Maybe, instead of jailing them, we could find another form of punishment that would be more intimidating...