[algernonpj]

Even Reagan threw up his hands at this problem. ...

Nice half truth. Reagan got suckered on signing amnesty with the promise of border enforcement.

OTH, Eisenhower had the stuff to order Operation Wetback!

...We might slow it down a little by strict enforcement against hiring illegals. ...

And another half truth. We could virtually eliminate at it by enforcing immigration law regarding hiring illegals and removing all the freebies that subsidize employers and breeders of anchor babies combined with strict border enforcement.

... The biggest cause of this is economics. ...

True eliminate tax payer subsidizies and freebies to illegals, anchor babies and their extended families, and they will both self-deport and not come.

[arrogantsob]

Reagan did not “get suckered”. He always knew what he was doing.

“True eliminate tax payer subsidizies and freebies to illegals, anchor babies and their extended families, and they will both self-deport and not come.” Not true. Most of the illegals are not using any of this.

Nor is there much chance of increasing the police forces to the level necessary to monitor economic activity to the extent it would take to eliminate illegals.

What would you do if you could make ten times as much by crossing a border? If doing so was the difference between comfort and poverty?