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" Name one thing Washington DC has done that they haven't f*cked up. If you really want them to expel illegals, push for local controls."

For one, the US military is a federal responsibility, and the federal government has done a pretty damned good job in raising and training our military, despite the unfortunately leadership our country forces that military to endure.

The fact that the federal government has screwed up in a number of areas--including immigration--doesn't dismiss them from the responsibility to secure our nation's borders from illegal immigration.

If you leave this issue to "locals," you'll have nothing a smorgasbord of responses based the politics in each jurisdiction, and no power to expel anyone out of the country (state and local authorities don't have that legal power). Cities like San Francisco will become havens for illegals who will flock to those areas, demanding all manner of social support from every level of government. The outcome will be no less of a mess than we have right now.

Making it a crime to hire an illegal doesn't put the responsibility for border security on anyone but the federal government. It simply requires those employers who now know full well that they're employing illegals to do so at the risk of prison. The Social Security Administration requires employers to submit "matching payment" (I know it's a farce) for all employees, so employers who are trying to stay within the law would quickly be informed by the government that SS information they've submitted for an employee is fraudulent. In fact, once the SS Administration finds a fraud attempt they can simply pass the employer/employee info to US Immigration, who can deliver the notification at the same time they take the illegal into custody. The employer wouldn't have to be bothered, unless he's not submitting SS payments for illegal employees, which would be a crime it itself, and evidence that he was knowingly employing an illegal.

Once such law became widely known and a few employers were marched off in cuffs and orange jump suits, virtually all employment opportunities for illegals would be shut off, so there would be virtually no affect on honest business owners. And, illegals would run to the border after just a few weeks.

If they can't make money, and they can't get social services, they're gone.

The two laws I've suggested, while not "politically correct," would all but totally rid our country of illegals in a very short time, and do so at virtually no expense.