What we need to pass is an Immigration Management bill and the bill needs to make one thing clear. Illegal immigrants are unwanted guests, they have limited rights to administrative hearings only for immigration issues, not the judicial system. They commit crimes, then they are prosecuted first.
Then, semi-militarize the Mexican border specifically to interdict alien smuggling and just whisper into Mexico’s ear that we’re really close to having a policy of ‘hot pursuit’ into Mexico for cross border crimes.
Dammit! Read #32!