[Shalom Israel]

Are you just spiking the thread or what? If not, I now know of at least one person who doesn't deserve to live in the United States.

Bleah. Minor exaggeration. The point you may or may not get--I can't tell--is that there are two separate questions here. First, what should we do about immigration? Answer: encourage it. Second: what should we do about flagrant lawbreaking? Answer: punish it severely.

[mumps]

Of course, one of the problems with "punishing" illegal immigrants is that it costs even more money. With execution, your suggested recommendation, you still have to dispose of the bodies. Even mass graves don't come cheap. And Mexico, from whom we import a considerable amount of oil, might just shut off the valves in protest.

Incarceration? Well, we know how expensive that is -- even if the government decided to use the incarcerated illegals in chain gangs that just happened to be part of construction crews and produce picking crews. And again, Mexico would protest. It could even decide to divert oil to China (nice of us to have built the Panama Canal).

To date, the cheapest solution is repatriation, usually by bus.

The one form of punishment that actually generates income is to fine the businesses that knowingly use illegal labor. But as already discussed on this thread, it's all a game.