[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Those who voluntarily go home and go through the legal process should be allowed back in if they meet the qualifications.

You mean the same "qualifications" we have now?

Those who refuse to leave and are caught should be sent back home and banned for at least a decade, if not life, from returning.

Wouldn't hurt. You would need fingerprints and/or DNA, not just a potentially phony ID card. But we would need better class of congresscritters than we have now to pass such a bill.

In any case, I don't think it would work without mandatory e-verify.

[caseinpoint]

You are right and I am writing of an ideal situation. It could work, if we had the will. But we don’t. America has become a land where feelings rule and it doesn’t take many sob stories before the rule of law and our principles are thrown to the wind so someone won’t be hurt.