Make it a no-man’s land, far worse than the DMZ between the Koreas.
Mines in the desert, 50ft wide moat filled with alligators and mines. Make the southern border impenetrable.
Don’t care if they come for work.
Go through the front door and receive all the protections a lawful resident or citizen receives...
Get rid of welfare. That’ll mean less bait for illegals to come into the country, and will also mean Americans too lazy to work will either develop a work ethic or starve.
We already have seasonal worker systems in place. Also green cards, etc..
But you don’t mop the floor until you first stop the leak.
Let’s see a system that can actually control immigration, then, and only then, begin discussing what to do with those who are here or want to be here.
Correction: businesses hire illegals who offer to work for much less money than citizens want. Take away the illegals, or impose sufficiently heavy fines for hiring illegals, and businesses will raise their wages to hire Americans.
We just need to decide what we want, a welfare state? Or open borders? You can’t have both.
1970s Germany. We need Turks to do the jobs Germans wont do. Didnt work out so well for the Germans, did it?
Need to take a few more steps:
1) Make them leave their families behind, they come alone, and if caught with family, they’re deported.
2) Either prohibit women of child-bearing age, or end anchor babies.
3) Punish the crap out of employers who don’t follow the rules
4) Limit their stints to something like 6 months here, 3 at home.
5) If all goes well with a worker after 5 or so stints here and they learn English, then consider putting them on a road to citizenship.
We had it in the 50s, it was called “bracero”
Demonictats want illegals to populate some states like Kalifornica so they can get extra representatives in the house and increase the power of the swamp. Fighting the swamp and sanctuary cities reduces the power of the plan.
No! Much simpler. Require eVerify and let American companies adjust their wage offerings to market prices. There are no jobs in American that would go lacking if the right wage and benefits were offered. Companies seeking cheap foreign labor, legal or otherwise, are simply trying to undercut and not use Americans.
I wish Trump would tell his crowds how the illegals get benefits through the government. The Dems always tell us that they do not get govt benefits. They get them ALL through the child. That would tick off people. It should help the Red Wave.
How to cope with labor shortages then? Higher pay, apprentice and training programs, and mechanization. Coping with labor shortages in that manner in the 50s and 60s raised US wages, made knuckleheads in high school into skilled blue collar workers, and helped spur US industrial development via the demand for work-related tools, equipment, and industrial machinery.
In an era of extraordinary advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, it is hard to imagine that labor productivity cannot be raised dramatically. All things considered, it is better to have 3CPO as a work colleague instead of a guest worker.
The USA is a far better place without any Illegals.
All this business stuff is Bull Roar!
Get Rid of all Illegals .. NOW!
President Trump has said he wants extreme vetting of potential immigrants done through an interview with paperwork to back up the immigrant’s claims.
Properly implemented with tough penalties, this could end the problem.
“businesses say aliens do work that US citizens/residents are not willing to do”
It’s now rare to see white people doing construction work in my area.
Repair people like plumbers are still almost all white.
pools - Hispanics
concrete - Hispanics
What exactly are white people supposed to do other than doctoring, lawyering and nursing?
Or not.
Who told you it worked?
A Sorry History of Self-Deception and Wasted Opportunities
Turkish immigrants have been coming to Germany since the 1960s, but for many years Germans assumed the "guest workers" would return home one day.
As kaktuskid posted you, the "bracero" program was the US's version of a guest workers program during WWII and a few years after. It too was a disaster.
More than a million failed to go and President Eisenhower launch "Operation Wetback" to round up and deport them - with military assistance.
I'm not inclined to agree with your premise. Americans are not willing to do the work at the pay the aliens will. There is not a trade in our country that hasn't been damaged by illegal un-taxed labor. You can get auto body repairs, construction, electrical work, mechanic repairs, house painting ....all done at half price by illegals. That is taking a toll on our citizens lives and on our tax base. It has to end.