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Refresh my memory, does that path include sneaking across one of our borders?"
Heh. No. It includes going back, going to the immigration offices, paying the fees, doing the paperwork and waiting their turn. That's been the right way for a very long time.
As long as bosses here hire them, they keep sneaking in regardless of laws and long incarcerations for those caught. Most people with anything to say in politics are such brown-nosing chickens, though, that they don't want their bosses to be punished for providing the big motive. There lies the real political problem and the elephant in the room.
They come for the jobs. If there were no jobs, they wouldn't come. The foreign-minded talker candidates will continue pushing for more cheaper, easier H1-Bs to bring more of the third world hordes in legally and look the other way for bosses who want more slaves from commie/fascist countries.
Ted Cruz wants to increase H-1B visas from 65,000 to 325,000 annuallyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3299943/posts
Scott Walker mentioned "
...we're going to need to make sure we put priority [on] American working families and their wages."
He's put that hint out quite a few times, but the political talking baboons and their talker candidates only want to talk more about beating on the poor Messcans while cheering their talker candidates on.