[Jeff Head]

Admit to the crime, fine them and their employers, put them on probation requiring monthly visits to the INS, do a backgorund check on them immediately ejecting those who have a record, immediately eject those who do not comply with all of the above, with no amnesty for the guest workers, requiring them all to go through the normal naturalization process in line with those already on that legal path...

...and do all of this AFTER the border is fixed, the fence built, and the pourous sieve of a border is closed so more cannot come. In the mean time, get aggressive about rounding up any illegals we can find presently and immediately deporting them so that when the time comes and the borders are fixed, those that remain will know that we mean business with this sort of guest worker program

[samcgwire]

A bit of prosecution goes a long ways.

Great post Jeff.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Your mechanism puts way too much emphasis on enforcing the current laws, which are about as enforceable as the Volstead Act was.

The problem is that in 1965, the federal government completely overturned over a century of social and legal custom in the Southwestern United States, and they did so about as casually as one gets a cup of coffee. The Washington social engineers put a lot of people in a very ugly place: a lot of Mexicans were given the option of either violating a capriciously imposed law or starving. Stupid idea--only Islamist extremists are that willing to kill themselves, so this law sets itself up for failure from the get-go.