And your solution is to punish the person who gave them jobs (knowingly or unknowingly), and made the UW's pay into the tax system?Would you rather the UW's just take in benefits, while producing no taxable income? And punish anyone who would give a job to anyone without running a background check that could cost thousands of dollars?
I think the best way to think about the problem is "comprehensive" (sorry, I could not resist, hehehehe).
1) Border security alone will not stop illegals, because the magnet is the jobs they can obtain illegally. Brutal punishments for employers mean illegals will find it far more difficult to find jobs, and so they will start leaving. According to statistics, hundreds of thousands choose to leave and go back on their own buck. But, still more come in. We should redress the balance by providing them with further and stronger reasons to leave. Making it ten times harder to find a job is such a reason. Also, electronic verification should not be any harder than paying with a credit card these days. In fact, the same technical system can be used and the fees of use would be just cents. If you do not believe it to be so, please provide counter-reasons.
2) Job control at home will not eliminate the problem alone either. There are jobs, e.g. construction and transportation, that inherently deal with day laborers paid by cash. Tracking all those down is nigh impossible at present. So, illegals will continue flocking to those jobs and they will remain a magnet. My guess is a few harsh examples made with a few employers, certainly including jailtime, will severely discourage but fail to eliminate the practice. In addition, the job control alone will not remove the criminal element, e.g. drug traffickers and similar scum. That is why we need border security. It will not stop all, but will decrease the traffic to levels manageable by the system as a whole. It is similar to bandaging a wound - stop the bleeding and reduce rate of infection, so that the immune system can cope with it while stem cells regenerate the tissue.
3) Job control and border security will not be enough alone either. We need a means for catching the illegals at the local level. That is why leaving this job to feds is untenable. We already have police and sheriffs depts in position. Why count on the feds exclusively? Local LE should arrest the illegals anywhere and deport them to a few holding centers for immediate deportation after proper biometrics has been collected. Illegals found are banned from legal entry into the country for 10 years. Then they are shipped at the expense of the country of origin. Let the other countries pay for and police their own citizens. Let them confiscate local property and hold liens over the returned illegal until they get their money back. The current catch-and-release is pathetic and shameful.
4) The above will still be insufficient. Many will continue coming in, hoping to drop an anchor baby before caught. Ergo, the anchor baby rule must be revoked, just as it has been in other developed countries. Others will flock in hoping to catch the last train before the shutoff and thus remain by some form of amnesty or another. Therefore it should be made clear from the beginning that no amnesty of any kind will be implemented and there would be no statute of limitations applied retroactively. Thus none could hope to hide for a few years until one can surface and legalize through some nonsense like that.
5) Eliminate "freebies" for illegals, except for maybe emergency care. Once they have to pay for everything they get for free now, suddenly their depressed wages will become untenable and so the employers will not be able to benefit from them as they do now.
All of the above measures are far less expensive than people think. We spend and will spend much more on "free" healthcare, education, and other benefits for illegals, if all of this is not fixed. All the above measures would work best when applied together. So, I have to agree with POTUS in the literal sense that we do need a "comprehensive" approach to the alien invasion problem. It is clear however that the goals and methods in mind are quite different, and that is something we need to remedy. Judging by the successful pass of the Fence Bill by the Senate today, I'd like to think we are finally starting to retake control of our government
