What punishment do you think should be applied to illegal immigrants?

Answer 1

shooting them as they cross the border like the mexicans do to the guatemalans. earn enough points and get a stuffed animal.

Answer 2

I don't believe any punishment should be applied to any illegal immigrant. I believe the punishment should be levied against any employer that hires an illegal knowingly or unknowingly. I believe a fine of $100,000 / illegal strictly enforced would give pause to any business or individual considering hiring cheap labor.

I would also force individuals to prove they are citizens at any publically-funded institutions such as hospitals, schools, clinics, unemployment offices and public assistance of all types.

If illegals can't work, they can't make any money, if they don't have any money they don't eat, and you don't stay where you can't eat. Heavy enforcement of these actions would stop the illegal problem within one year. The illegals would go back to Mexico or face starvation in a country where they can't earn a living.

After clearing the country of illegals then we can begin to work on what migrant, and the word is MIGRANT worker is needed in the US. We can also begin to figure out if we need to up immigrant quotas. But either way the illegals ALL have to leave the country before any of the rest can happen.

Answer 3

Deportation doesn't work, they just come right back. The problem is actually that they (or most of them) are so poor in their own country that they risk EVERYTHING including their lives to come here to start over. After all. that's what the United States is all about, Right? There is, however, a right way to immigrate and an ILLEGAL way to immigrate. For the ILLEGALS, I say we re-activate someplace like Alcatraz or something and start incarcerating them for 6 months for the first offense. 18 months for the second offense and then try them under the three strikes law for anything after the second offense and consider it a felony. The problem with this idea is that there are so many of them we wouldn't be able to build or operate enough prisons to house them. This is a Pandora's box, no matter how you slice it.

Answer 4

Well deportation seems like the most common answer to the question, but what will stop them from coming back after we deport them? Immigrants come over in huge numbers if we deport 1, 50 more will come accross, so what is the real punishment and who is being punished? They don't have the respect it takes to understand what it means to be deported, maybe to hold them indefinately is the answer, because deporting doesn't work. So is there an aswer???? I can only say that deporting won't be the answer.

Answer 5

They have been doing a test case along parts of the Texas border, prosecution as a misdemeanor and 15 days the first violation, up to two years on a second violation. The link below discusses how effective this is in combatting illegal entry. However, I saw another link saying crime has dropped 76% this July from last July, generally in the Del Rio area.

Seems like a good deal all around.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700455.html?nav=rss_world/centralamerica

Answer 6

If hard evidence they also committed serious crimes in their country and brought that criminal activity across U.S. borders, then law enforcement should hand over that to INS, along with the illegal human baggage for a haul back to their country.

INS then can turn over that evidence to that country's law enforcement, who I'm sure will be all too glad to have it and put the book on the immigrant criminals who escaped into the U.S.

As for what the U.S. can do, I say build a unscalable high concrete wall--complete with a very deep pit of razor ribbon on the U.S. side (just in case), and maybe even fortify that with a dangerous mine field--which completely covers the U.S. / Mexico border.

Answer 7

Deportation isn't a punishment. The holding cells we have for them provide them with dental/healthcare and meals. Then they get a free ride home and can try to make their way into America again. I like the idea of collecting points to earn a stuffed animal. I would totally play.

Answer 8

Mexico should be punished! This is a complex problem since their own country (Mexico) is doing such a poor job of offering job opportunities, obviously the school system is lacking and apparently they don't offer welfare services to the needy. Actually, I suppose that our country would be doing itself a service by helping Mexico out of its third world status. Then everyone would be happy. Or, we could just take over Mexico and make it part of the U.S. What do you think?

Answer 9

Put in Jail and be deported or just deport them back. Its not fair they stay here because of the people who fill out all the paperwork and take all the tests to get here legally. A very close friend of mine couldn't get here, and he understood and spoke English very well with no troubles. There are millions of people here who don't even know how to speak any words of English.

Answer 10

No punishment, they should just all have a green card and be required to pay their share of the taxes etc. I don't begrudge anyone trying to better themselves by coming to America, I just think that everyone here should have to follow the same rules. I pay taxes and so should everyone else, whether they are here for 1 week, 1 month or forever.

Answer 11

I think they should be given a choice: if you want to stay, jail time for at least three years. If you want to be deported, you are gone as of today. I think that when a company who hires illegals does so knowingly, they should be fined so harshly that they would never even think of hiring an illegal alien again.