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"What do you suggest?"

1. Secure the borders.
2. Enforce the laws on the books and deport all illegal aliens.
3. Insist on proof of citizenship before accepting children of illegal immigrants into public schools and then do #2 above.
4. Fine employers who hire illegal aliens and then do #2
5. Stop giving free healthcare to illegals (passport or proof of citizenship required for services)
6. Proof of citizenship or driver's license required at the voting booth

These are just a few things that I suggest. I know of no other effective way to stem the tide other than to take legal and drastic measures.

Good suggestions.

Mr. Newt had some similar in an interview with Rush:
Point #1. We have an absolute national security obligation to secure our borders, including the coasts -- and there has to be a serious, professional, methodical plan to do that.

Point #2: To make that plan work, in my judgment, you have to have a green card program for guest workers who will give you an iris scan or a thumbprint, who will agree to obey the law and pay taxes, and who understand that you will deport them within 72 to 96 hours if they break the law. I think you have to have some kind of ventilate the economic pressure, but to keep it legal and keep it economic.

Point # 3: You've got to change our deportation laws so that when people are illegally here they can be gone in 72 to 96 hours. There is no ground rule that says, "If you break the law to get inside our system you are then protected within our system."

Point #4: Everybody who's here illegally has to go home and apply for a green card. You can't have people start their career working in America by breaking the law and getting away with it, and it sends a terrible signal to everybody waiting at home obeying the law who's applied for a visa -- and finally, I am for American citizenship for first-generation immigrants who can pass a test in American history in English. But I think we have an absolute commitment in this country to being a country that continues to teach American civilization and that part of that civilization is to have a common language and a common culture.