"Labor is already tight with unemployment below average and shortages existing in both geographical and industrial sectors.
If we don't increase the labor pool in the country we could face serious shortages in the near future."
Even if your seriously flawed assumptions were true....then we should cut funding for social services like schooling, housing, welfare, etc for these illegal trespassers. They would mostly "self deport" in 6 months time. Then, start a new "list" of LEGAL applicants for emmigration to the US.
Get the illegals out. Welcome new immigrants who abide by our laws and will be "team players".
But again....since the very foundation of your sensless claim of a labor shortage is false....everything else is just wishful thinking.
"An Opinion Research Corp. survey released last week showed the No. 1 priority of registered voters across the country is border defense and homeland security. It was – far and away – the top military or foreign priority for 43 percent of the respondents. A distant second, at 19 percent, was intelligence gathering. Just 17 percent thought international aid and diplomacy should be the nation's most important objective.
When voters were asked to choose their highest, second and third priorities from the list of issues, and their top choices were combined, defense of U.S. borders was the clear winner at 77 percent."
http://resultsforamerica.org/survey.html
Fine by me.