Two words: soylent green!

Workplace enforcement - fine business owners who hire illegal immigrants.

1. Streamline the immigration procedure - Make it easier and less expensive for those who want to immigrate to do so legally so the temptation to immigrate illegally is removed.

2. Tie work visas to employers -- employers would register at embassies with open jobs available for immigrants. The jobs would be open for ALL potential immigrants, regardless of nationality, and when the job terminates, the visa expires two weeks later. Workers can return and get a new visa, but they MUST return to do so.

3. Border enforcement -- rotate law enforcement officers from communities within border states for two week border patrols. Because the officers deal with the end result (drugs, crime, etc), they have a vested interest in securing the borders. Offer block grants to communities who provide officers for border patrol duties. This is less expensive than increasing expense for full time border patrol.

As for those already here, I like LW's solution: do nothing. If all of the above steps are implemented, they will find it harder to find employment, meaning they would have to go through legal channels to immigrate. If they are captured, allow our officers to verify legal residency, and deport them immediately after they have served the full sentences for all crimes for which they have been convicted.

how would you implement this? where does the money come from?

The devil is in the details. The money is already appropriated for border security (some). The enforcement would come from the INS budget. More could be put there and pulled from existing funds such as Education, Welfare, and health. Pork might squeal, but that is another source (hey! I am blue skying, so might as well go whole hog!).

Implementation would come in the order given. You cant mop up a flood without first stopping the water from coming in.

Bring the National Guard from Iraq and secure our border with the Guard until we have enough Border Guards to secure the border.

Construct a fence and provide the surveillance equipment.

Begin enforcing laws that fine employers that hire illegals.

Develop a biometric based ID system for all people in this country. We need a system to know the identity of people and a system to determine their status-- Citizen, Legal Visitor, Legal Immigrant or Illegal Immigrant.

Conduct a dialog about how to deal with the current illegal’s in the U.S. We must come to agreement as to how we identify and handle the illegals.

Develop a Guest worker program that provides for NEEDED added labor and is enforceable. The guest worker program must not be allowed to displace American workers with lower paying foreign workers.

If you dry up the jobs, you dry up the immigration. But some of those who are here might turn to crime just to make a living instead of going back where they came from.

actually a number of california Farmers have moved a small portion of their business to Mexico. More are sure to follow.

But your idea seems the one that makes most sense as a simple solution.

I like this idea I picked up from Maxine.

Forget the fences.....instead dig a big trench all along the border. Fill with water and then with alligators and crocodiles. Make it a breeding ground. Then take the dirt and bring it to New Orleans and build up the levys.

Problem solved.......

if i could do anything i would deport the 12 million as found and i would also do away with the illegal immigration status between the usa and mexico.

we do not have the same status between the usa and canada becouse the canadians don't work any cheaper than we do but the mexicans do.

if the 12 million returned to the usa for any reason the go to prison and then get deported again

hey, maybe we're onto something...sure beats any of their ideas.

The bloggers save the day yet again...LOL.

Reply By: KFC Kickin For ChristPosted: Friday, July 06, 2007 With the mote, we could put it on pay-per-view to fund it! hey, maybe we're onto something...sure beats any of their ideas. The bloggers save the day yet again....

Reply By: JythierPosted: Friday, July 06, 2007 We can call the pay per view.. crocodile rock fight night. With the mote, we could put it on pay-per-view to fund it!