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I'd probably want to defer to Poohbah to a large extent on mechanics. Perhaps the use of UAVs could help, or we could remove the incentives (prosecute employers of Illegals after the amnesty period expires to the fullest extent of the law) to come over illegally.

I'm willing to listen to options on that front.

Perhaps the use of UAVs could help, or we could remove the incentives (prosecute employers of Illegals after the amnesty period expires to the fullest extent of the law) to come over illegally.

Yeah Sure. Just like the employers of Illegals were prosecuted after the 1984 Amnesty—NOT! If our Government AGAIN chooses to take the easy way out of not enforcing its immigration laws by Amnestying Illegal Aliens it will NEVER find the discipline of doing it AFTER an Amnesty. History is quite clear on this.

You are being disingenuous in your arguments, though I know it’s not the first time you have taken this tack. Your case for Amnesty reminds me of the old saw on the definition of Insanity as: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results each time".

I'm not very optimistic about using UAVs for border security; you're simply relocating manpower, not reducing it. (You still need a bunch of people to watch the display screens, after all.)

The idea of enforcing employer sanctions is a sound one that needs to be aggressively pursued.

As for a long-term solution to the illegal immigration issue, I don't see it happening on a "fortify the border" basis for the following reasons:

The Mexican border is only the shortest border we have, and it's too long to effectively control under present circumstances (namely, a very poor Mexico adjacent to a very rich United States).
The Canadian border is far longer, and Canadian immigration control makes the very loose US posture look downright draconian.
Finally, the coastlines would need to be patrolled just as intensively to prevent seaborne infiltration.

The best deterrent to illegal immigration is to make it worth the potential immigrant's while to stay in Mexico.

Unfortunately, I don't see that happening unless we invade Mexico and opt to either rule it as a conquered province for a couple decades or to simply replace the current government with one more aligned with our interests. The good news of this idea is that our southern land frontier would be greatly shortened. The bad news is that we'd damn near double our seaward frontier.