I saw the interview and Krauthammer was very reasonable (in that he agreed with me.)
He said that we had to first control the borders with no preconditions. After that we can talk about what to do with those already here. There are illegals here that we will not be able (willing) to deport. People with citizen children, houses, jobs, savings, etc. Illegal children brought here as babies and residents here for 20 years or more. Etc.
Forget them for now and lets solve the problem of the open borders.
Let’s also solve the problem of LEGAL immigration. After years on student and employment visas (goodness only knows why...he appears to have been a temp who worked at the Elizabeth Arden offices in CT), the NYC bomber got citizenship by marrying a Pakistani woman who had already gotten American citizenship out of some kind of family reunification thing. In addition, he benefitted from the fact that in 2009, Obama made some kind of regulatory change that made country quotas equal and permitted a surge in Muslim immigration, which was his stated purpose at that time.
What I’m afraid of is that our immigration policy is going to be so skewed towards the Muslim Third World (Africa and SE Asia particularly) that we will end up like Britain.
The problem with that is the tendency to look south, at the people coming across, rather than at the Americans who are paying them to come here.
Seriously: illegals come here for the jobs, or the welfare, or both.
Deal with the demand side, both among employers and government agencies, and the illegal immigration problem will pretty much end itself for economic reasons.