[azhenfud]

The current immigration law doesn't work partly because the penalties for hiring Illegaliens is far too low and taxpayer funded services are handed out to them by the dozen.

If employers and Illegaliens risked confiscation of assets and penalties nearing the point of bankrupting them, their attention spans would definitely increase in regards to obeying the law. Confinement of Illegaliens without bail until deportation is also a necessary step in increasing respect for the law.

[FredTownWard]

If all we do is make it impossible for businesses that currently depend on employing illegals to continue to do so, they will be forced to (a) go out of business (b) move overseas or (c) if it is the kind of business that cannot be replaced by overseas competitors (restaurants), raise their prices enormously and thus shrink their business. As for rounding up and holding 8,000,000+ illegals, we lack the manpower and the prison space. Restoring the military draft so we can build prison camps all across the Southwest in order to protect ourselves from gardeners, maids, and other low wage workers strikes me as a poor use of scarce resources during wartime.

[ckilmer]

we can't stop immigrants short of means that will violate our traditions, our conscience, and our national interest.
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the question is whether we stop the illegals now when there is some chance that we can return to "normalcy" or later when there is no chance for a return to normalcy.

[jnarcus]

You are so correct. Where does the WSJ get off claiming 20 years of trying to enforce illegal immigration laws? If anything a blind eye has been turned to allow anyone across. In fact during the Clinto years it was encouraged. I am so sick of the elites hiding behind their gated community mentality and avoiding what happens when there are illegals anging out on the corneres actively trying to get people ti "hire them" Outside of the simple crack down on WalMart cleaners WHERE has there been a concerted effort to have businesses truly enforce the immigration laws? NOWHERE

[Capt.YankeeMike]

Poppycock. I am all for the 2000 mile wall. Nothing will get shut down. Americans can and would fill all the jobs.
complete and utter BS.
The Capt.