[rcocean]

What do YOU think we should do:
1.) with the 12 million illegals currently living in the US
2.) with the needs of business for workers for jobs that Americans can't and won't do?

1) We don't "need" to do anything except enforce the law; stop the inflow and quit rewarding illegal immigration. Do that and most will go home.

2) What needs? There are no jobs Americans "can't" do. And Americans will do *any* job if paid well enough. It isn't the job of Federal Government to ensure a supply of cheap available labor. Its called the free market. And if you can't compete in a global economy without illegal, tax free labor then too bad.

[pigdog]

Yeah, enforcing the emigration laws would be nice. So would changing at least the tax law to the FairTax so that if the illegals remained here they would at least be paying the full tax load as would everyone else rather that just evading.

They'd pay tax at the same rate as the rest of us but NOT be eligible for the prebate and this would be a serious disincentive for them to remain. If they did, however, at least they'd be contributing fully to tax revenue whereas now they merely soak up tax money in the form of benefits the rest of us pay for.