There should be nothing for Illegal Aliens here in the US. Nothing, Nothing, Nothing. The law that says a child born in the US is Automatically a US Citizen should be changed, Both Parents must be legal citizens of the US, for the child to be a Citizen.
The agencies that we have should contribute employee's to the DHS to work directly for the Director and also act as a Liason with there Home Departments. This keeps the info flowing, not only into DHS, but out of DHS and back to the Home Offices.
So a Directors Office, that gathers information that is pertinant to US Homeland Security, but also is shared among the information gathering and inforcment agencies.
The Border needs to be PHYSICALLY CONTROLLED, not wide open as it is. A Double wall of Concrete, topped with 10'-15' electrified Chain link Fence and covered razor wire. Between the walls Land Mines. Towers about every 1/4 to 1/2 mile intervals. Bridges at entry points. Helos with Swat teams ready.
For shipments coming into the country, Warehouses and Refrigerated Warehouses where foreign trucks drop off their shipments to examination and testing if necessary. Only US Trucks and Trucking firms transport goods within the US.
In addition to my previous post, the Home Nation should be billed for any and all expenses incurred by their citizens here in the US, e.g. Food, housing, medical etc.
Employers who hire illegal aliens should have some hefty fines to begin with then Jail time added after the first or second offense. To expedite the identity and removal of Illegal Aliens, a Bounty of $500.00 should be placed on their heads.
Agree there should be Absolute Zero for illegals. I don't even understand why it is debatable. As for the law about attaining US citizenship if you are born on US soil -- it is an insult and a degradation of the whole concept. I worked for several years in the Middle East, and it used to make my blood boil to see pregnant Kuwaitis and Saudis flying to the US to have the child born in a US hospital, making it a citizen, and then coming home to the Gulf to wait a few years before using the child's citizenship as a wedge for other goodies. And there are far worse examples than these; the Kuwaitis and Saudis who did this were generally good people who were pro-US and economically self-supporting. But it still cheapened citizenship status.