You are right..zero tolerance and the rest will get the message.
Now we need to prosecute those who hire illegals with equal force. Work on supply and demand.
Get those meat packing jobs back up to $17 per hour..or whatever it takes. We will just pay more for beef, pork and chicken. Or eat less(we are mostly overweight).
Beef sells higher than ever, but the packing houses are making more money, just passing heath care on to tax payer and putting labor savings in their pockets. Asset forfeiture will stop this...
It's not quite that simple, the fact is those companies WOULD suffer and those $17/hr jobs might not be around long.
I'm not saying keep the illegals, not at all. Just that the solution isn't quite that simple.
Too many fat, happy politicians who've read books about the French Revolution and have nightmares about it at night.