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There are several considerations that need to be looked at rationally.

(Add to that, it is *always* a bad idea to try and treat a large group of people under a blanket rule, because that is a recipe for stupid cruelty. Having and using more solutions than just one does much to alleviate this, even if it forces people to *think* some, and not just *feel*.)

First and foremost, the general situation about immigration is that we have already won, in the long term. Why? Because Mexican reproduction rates have dropped from strong growth to just sustainability. About 2.3 children per family. This means that Mexican wages have to go up, which strongly undermines emigration.

Second, rationally, we need to subdivide illegal aliens into two groups: economic migrants and serious criminals.

Obviously, the priority is to get the serious criminals first. But there are so many that deporting them creates a problem for *Mexico*, because when they cross the border, they are recruited by the drug gangs.

There might be a relatively easy and cheap solution for this, however, not yet considered. What if, by treaty, the US built a very large, maximum security prison, in Mexico, just south of the border?

Think of it as a “duty free prison”. With both American and Mexican guards, yet prisoners would serve their full time, no parole or probation, with no right of appeal to courts on either side.

Simply put, if US prisoners are Mexican nationals, they serve all their time in a legal enclave in Mexico, and when eventually released, they are released in Mexico.

As far as the “economic migrant” illegals already here, they need to be again subdivided into those that are going to school, integrating, working and willing to work; and the “welfare babies”, who stay in Mexican ghettos, make no effort to integrate, and live exclusively on the public dole.

Again obviously, the emphasis needs to be on deporting the slackers. Not surprisingly, it is fairly easy to tell them apart. And once the slackers are kicked out, or at least cut off from their support, the rest of illegal aliens could likely be naturalized. But the rules would have to be changed so that they could do so without leaving the US.

The secret here is that the US does want a certain number of immigrants, and educated, working Mexicans are a lot better choice than many of the other peoples the US has been inviting.