“Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower’s first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.
America “was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale,” Mr. Brownell said. “When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.””
So the solution is already in place.
We just don’t have the cajones to implement it.
And campaigning against those knowingly employing illegals is, how you say, vote-getting averse.
There are sufficient laws on the books to do the job, and sufficient numbers of border patrol folks. Once you apprehend a guy...establish some seven-day grace period for him to prove otherwise, then put him on the bus or plane. If you wanted more laws....just establish some anti-gift/money laws on any federal or state representative who takes a bribe to change a law or allow illegals to stay...say six months in a state prison.