[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.

[hedgetrimmer]

Where are you going to imprision them?

Malaysia demonstrated that most will leave without requiring a prison stay first.

No one was "scooped up and shipped to a foreign country". They left of their own free will, which is completely constitutional.

You are not standing up for the rights of your fellow American citizens if you do not support our right to regulate our borders and our immigration policies. If you are an American citizen, you should know that for the American system to continue, Americans need to respect their fellow Americans and the law.

If a business must break federal law in order to be profitable (that is use an illegal workforce) its no longer a business but a criminal enterprise.

[flashbunny]

"Face it people, if this was as cheap and easy as you think, someone would have done it already."

bzzzt, sorry wrong answer.

It is cheap and easy,especially compared to the costs of keeping them here.

However, the political will to do it is what doesn't exist. Mainly because A) people want to pander to the hispanic voting block, even though the majority of hispanics favor enforcing immigration laws and B) politicians receive large donations from people who benefit from not enforcing our borders and immigration laws.

It can be done pretty easily, and with most of the laws on the books. It just takes people with gonads to do it. Instead, we are lead by cowards.

[taxed2death]

"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."

There is a cheap easy way.

Enforce existing laws for employers. I own a small business, it's not that hard to find out if someone is here legally. (Nexus) The illegals will self deport if there is no work...and no goobermint handouts.

If the job market dries up for illegals and we find that we DO need 20+ million dish washers and lawn cutters, then by all means start a guest worker program.