[Modernman]

Then lets at least secure our borders.

Agreed. Doing that would eliminate the majority of the problem. Turn the illegal flow into a relative trickle (say, 20K a year- you can never get it down to zero) and pump resources into assimilating everyone who is already here, then do some sort of gradual, rolling amensty.

[Mr. Mojo]

True enough -- mass deportation is simply not going to happen. The only solution is to secure the borders the best we can (which is a helluva lot more than we're currently doing), reduce the welfare statism and freebees that attract many illegals up here to begin with, don't allow ANY immigration for at least a couple of decades (except perhaps from 1st world nations), and do our best to Americanize the millions of both illegal AND legal third worlders currently here. It's our only shot to keep our culture (relatively) intact.