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Our immigration policy needs repair. Not only should existing immigration laws be more strictly enforced and our borders better controlled, but U.S. employers who hire illegal immigrants should be stiffly fined. Immigrant admission rules should be revised to take into account a potential worker's education, skill, work experience and health, as well as other work-related characteristics.
From the article that you linked. I support Alfred Tella's opinion on this. And noticed that in his article there was no mention of building walls (economic barriers). It is notable that spending on border enforcement and employer compliance enforcement has increased since the formation of DHS, and the realignment of CBP, and ICE/USCIS (from INS). The points where I part ways with others here are: when someone advocates changing administrative laws from misdemeanors to felonies, and creating more government programs to dig into privacy; as well as promoting building a wall (especially on the Texas side of the border). I am against a blanket amnesty, because it disadvantages (and cheapens) those that follow the rules & laws. The IRS has established guidelines on what constitutes a resident alien, and it is different from USCIS. Such inconsistencies between federal agencies should be resolved -by congress- before they spout off the inflammatory rhetoric. My evaluation of this "immigration reform" issue is that congress sees about $50 billion dollars sitting in SSA that has been put in by ITIN's and numbers with errors, and they want to raid this money for their districts. And whipping up the W-2 wage slaves (which I am not) into a frenzy, showing a need for a National Citizenry Database that will get funded by fees paid (by the other guy), will garner political loyalty for the dims; while dividing conservatives.