[dalereed]

Until the employers of illegals are a major part of the enforcement and heavy fines and prison for repeat offenders they will keep trying to come.

If employers are targeted there won't be any jobs and they will go home or starve.

The BP should be split in half, half on the border and half going after employers.

Build the fence also, the whold 2000 miles wouldn't cost more than what the illegals cost California yearly.

[HiJinx]

That's my point, Dale. There is no one solution...and you are absolutely correct, employer sanctions are a major component of solving the problem.

I don't mean token fines levied against the giants like Wal-Mart and ConAgra.

I mean shutting down Tyson plants, shutting down my sister's box company in Phoenix, shutting down landscaping companies in LA, shutting down construction companies in Vegas and Atlanta...

The problem is pervasive and the solution must needs be the same.

[Mack the knife]

Build the fence also, the whold 2000 miles wouldn't cost more than what the illegals cost California yearly.

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I find it interesting that $2Billion for a fence is "insanely expensive", but $15Billion to rebuild portions of New Orleans that are below sea level is entirely acceptable.

[EequalsMC2]

In WWII, farmers would go to the concentration camps where Germans were being held (source: Farmers son, recollections of 1940 USA), and they would state how many workers they needed.

The prisoners would work the farm while armed guards stood by.

WHY not do this in a modified way now. Illegals who "just want to work" can be placed in guarded camps, employers would go to camps ans request workers..workers could works under guard, then get the heck home!!!

Mexicans want jobs? Fine. WORK. Don't rely on Medical, Social and political WELFARE..WORK, then GO HOME!

[Terabitten]

The BP should be split in half, half on the border and half going after employers.

Bad idea. There are plenty of other agencies who can and should go after the employers - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, who is currently tasked with interior enforcement) and the IRS come to mind.

If anything, we need to demand that Border Patrol agents focus on their primary mission - patrolling the borders. USBP has extremely high supervisory and bureaucratic overhead. That needs to be reduced to put as many boots on the ground as possible.