Any State that actively stands in the way of federal law should lose funding. That and the Feds should send hundreds of immigration officers to blanket the state and snare a lot of the criminals who come in. Of course neither will ever happen because both Congress and the President have no interest in solving this problem.
Agree, and I would say that is the LEAST that should be done. States cannot go around willy nilly defying Immigration Laws, which are in the purview of the Federal Government.
I am going to try to stay optimistic. I am encouraged that federal immigration agents are blasting the plan. And from reports I have read, Bush is now going to address this crisis in the right way, IMO, by fining employers heavily. I am not necessarily against a border fence, but I think if we make it extremely difficult for an illegal to get a job, financially risky for a business to knowingly employ one, and illegal to provide taxpayer funded services (like K-12 education), the problem would be greatly reduced.