I don't know that this is what TT says, but I would support the following:
1) Actively encourage all border patrol to work with the Minutemen; issue statements supporting the efforts of the MM and ANY other citizens who want to help.
2) Find ways to increase communication/liason with the MM, so that if someone spots and illegal, a BP agent can get there quickly.
3) REQUIRE all public entities---schools, hospitals, whoever, to report the presence of an illegal at the soonest possible opportunity. For a hospital, that means the minute you get done in the emergency room or whatever. For a teacher, it means that day.
4) Require all state drivers license bureaurs to deny licenses to ANYONE who cannot produce a valid birth certificate or social security card.
5) Triple the number of border patrol agents.
6) Make knowingly hiring an illegal a felony subject to prison time. Make any third offense of hiring an illegal, knowingly or not, prison time.
7) Increase federal aid to states based on their efficiency and performance in sending illegals back. States doing a good job should be rewarded.
That's just a start. Need more?
That's just a start. Need more?
A few simple questions to start with.
How are you going to enforce these new laws?
How are you going to pay all the new bureaucrats you will need to hire to enforce these new laws?
What are you going to do with the people you sweep up between the time they are arrested and the time a court hearing can be held to order deportment?
What are you going to do with those citizens and illegals you arrest in enforcing these new laws?
Since most states all ready have too many prisoners and too few prisons, who are you going to release to lock up these new criminals? If not released, how are you going to pay for new all the new prisons?
Are you not concerned that by granting these new law enforcement authority to the Federal Government you are pissing all over the 10th Amendment and the idea of separation of powers? Why stop here? Since you are so willing to have the Fed come in and dictate everything to the states, why not just abolish the State's completely and run EVERYTHING from DC?
The point, which the anti-illegal immigration side cannot seem to get because of their emotional knee jerk reaction to anyone who disagrees on this issue, is this. You cannot "deport all the illegals" and "Fortify the border" with out fundamentally increasing the size and power of the Federal police authority. Every idea put forward by the anti-migrants requires that the Feds step in and start dictating how local and state authorities function. As a strict constructionist, that is a cure that is worse then the disease to my mind. Instead of demanding a top down hysterical Leftist style Washington directed solution, why don't the anti-migrants work on local and state authorites to implement some of your ideas first?