No president is ever going to drive through a neighborhood with an army of buses rounding up exisiting illegals. I know it sounds great but the political press around the world would be devastating. THAT is the reality regardless of the legality.
So what do you do with those here already?
1. fine them
2. require them to be fluent in english and atleast a high school equiv. exam within 5 years.
3. tax any money they send out of the country, (to pay for the taxes they didnt pay while here)
4. Forbid them from sponsoring anyone for citizenship for 7 years
5. If they are arrested for a felony or currently have a felony conviction they are deported.
6. If they are arrested in the company of illegal aliens they are deported.
Here is what Indonesia did:
The Indonesian government has vowed to work hard to bring home around 400,000 illegal workers remaining in Malaysia, with Malaysia deciding to extend the amnesty for the third time.
Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Fahmi Idris said on Wednesday the government would continue disseminating information on the amnesty's extension and the simplified and free documentation available in order to persuade illegal immigrants to return home.
"Besides disseminating free documentation, the government will deploy transportation facilities to prevent them from being stranded at Malaysia's exit points. The Malaysian government has also helped disseminate information on the amnesty program through employers and requested that they pay their workers' salaries.
"If workers fail to respond to this positively, then the (Indonesian) government has no more ideas on how to prevent the Malaysian authorities from enforcing their harsh immigration laws," Fahmi told The Jakarta Post in Jakarta.
"Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Alwi Shihab has prepared transportation facilities such as ships and C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft to transport the illegal migrants," Arke said.
Meanwhile, chief of the immigration office in Belawan port, Syamsul Bahri, called on the government to deploy more ships to Malaysia since thousands of illegal immigrants have been stranded at several Malaysian ports due to lack of transport facilities to Indonesia.
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Illegal aliens are maintained by their employers. You come down like a ton of bricks on the employers you will send the illegals home. The employer has to have information readily available on who is here legally and who isn,t. If we can find a cow with mad cow disease in this country we can surely find out where the illegals are. Perhaps we give them each a cow when the sneak in. The computer age is here. This can be done.