[azhenfud]

One way to reduce the "backlog" is to deny hearings and order the immediate deportation of anyone who cannot prove he/she entered the United States through an established border checkpoint.

[franksolich]

Well, that is the law.

However, the bureaucrats are not enforcing the law.

[John Lenin]

Another way is to give them one year to go home and sign up for the proprer documents from the Mexican government. A third party is going to happen in 08 and they will win the election.

[BohDaThone]

One way to reduce the "backlog" is to deny hearings and order the immediate deportation of anyone who cannot prove he/she entered the United States through an established border checkpoint.

And a response:
Well, that is the law.

Actually, it isn't the law. Asylum seekers, especially, can have their cases adjudicated wherever they entered (Elian??). And the law has many, many waiver provisions. Also, in the absence of a "national identity card," I doubt if you or I, or many of us, could prove we "entered through an established border checkpoint."

That's one of the big dilemmas -- we could get a list of all the illegals -- but only if we can get a list of all the legals, which many people violently oppose.