Nothing really, if it would work.
The Dept. of Homeland security admits there are 3.6 million visa overstays now in the country that they can't find.
They system is broken and no adequate vetting is done. They don't go home. 100,000 from the 1986 amnesty never bothered to "register".
The president's pet project, a massive guest worker program with six-year temporary cards, will be overseen by an agency already strapped with an alphabet soup of temporary worker plans, already impossible to enforce.
In fact, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, Emilio Gonzalez, during his Senate confirmation process said, quote, "I don't think the system's -- in fact, I know the systems that exists right now wouldn't be able to handle it."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/06/ldt.01.html
Nothing really, if it would work. The Dept. of Homeland security admits there are 3.6 million visa overstays now in the country that they can't find.
The problem with the system right now is that American business needs this low cost source of labor, there is no legal way to get it and therefore American businessmen pressure their Congresscritters to look the other way.
Right now, the Government can't crack down on businesses who hire illegal workers without driving them and significant sectors of the American economy into the ground.
That is what it all boils down to: Money.
Regardless of the issue, given the choice of listening to American business with Big Bucks and listening to you, your Congresscritter is going to listen to American business with Big Bucks.
That's the way American politics works. It's not right. It's not fair. But that is the way it is.
Once a Guest Worker program is in place, American businesses can have their low cost floor moppers and tomato pickers through a legal process. With such a program in place, there is no longer an economic necessity to ignore the law.
You can then deal with illegal immigration by targeting ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT instead of chasing down millions of individual illegals.
It's just like dealing with fies around your garbage can. You don't stand out there next to your garbage can with a fly swatter chasing thousands of flies out of your yard. You don't build a fly-proof dome around your property. You simply shut the garbage can lid in order to deprive the flies of their food source. The flies then go away.
Likewise, to deal with millions of illegal workers (once there is no excuse NOT to be legal), you simply deprive them of their employment sources.
"O.K., Mr.WatchingInAmazement. My agents have discovered 6 foreign workers at your business without Guest Worker Visas. Here is your summons to appear in Court. At $10,000.00 per violation, the fine will be $60,000.00 plus Court costs. Have a nice day. We will be back. Maybe next year, maybe next week, maybe tomorrow."
Well said.