[Marine Inspector]

The only way to prevent earned legalization is to support Bush's Guest Worker plan.

Good joke.

[Ben Ficklin]

The conventional wisdom at Free Republic is that if you start enough threads and keep them bumped up, Congress will deport the mexicans.

[bill1952]

Not a good joke, just a joke.

How about a starting point that anyone in the country illegally be banned from citizenship forever, ipso facto?"

Since I believe that you have to be caught more than once to be guilty of more than a civil offense, this is, without a doubt, within the realm of possibility.

Also get rid of the nonsense about law enforcement not being able to inquire about status, and that will go a very long way to solve the problem.

We have aided and abetted this problem by our present policies, and we can realize that, and change that.