[hedgetrimmer]

In Malaysia last year, the government just told everyone that if you are illegal you have 6 weeks to get out. If you don't we'll put you in prison.

Guess what? A significant number of their illegal population voluntarily left! For those that couldn't arrange their own transportation to get out, the Malaysian navy provided transportation as well. All the administration has to do is say, "we're going to start imprisoning all of you if you don't leave". They will leave and it won't cost hardly anything to our government. Then to follow up, give prison time and/or hefty fines to those who come back. When it starts to cost the illegals more money than what they'd get by working here illegally, they'll stop coming.

[Dave S]

All the administration has to do is say, "we're going to start imprisoning all of you if you don't leave".

Where are you going to imprision them? We dont have enough prison space to house all the criminals we convict. Where are you going to house all of them as they await trial? You do realize you cant just scoop up people who dont have papers on them and ship them to a foreign country. Face it people, if this was as cheap and easy as you think, someone would have done it already.

[Leatherneck_MT]

"In Malaysia last year, the government just told everyone that if you are illegal you have 6 weeks to get out. If you don't we'll put you in prison."

I'd like to expound on that. Send them to Gitmo and then turn them loose on Castro. Tit for Tat since he turned the worst of his criminals loose on us.