How to stop illegal immigration?

Question

I need someone to tell me how to stop 20 million Mexicans and other South Americans from pouring over a border that our President doesn't want closed.

Answer 1

Build a decent wall across the Mexican border, in a few years terrorists will use that route to get into America and cause chaos.
A trench, then a barbed wire fence, then a minefield. Past that a concrete wall with guard towers and official checkpoints to let in legitimate immigrants.
Use gunboats and choppers to patrol the coastline, prevent any landing by sea.
And introduce national service for American-born men, give them border patrol duties.

Alternatively we could invade Mexico and later the rest of South America, to fulfil our manifest destiny. No immigrants as they'll all be citizens. Send the ones who resist back to Spain.

Answer 2

First, we need to draw a distinction between legal and illegal immigration. Immigration as such--and especially the influx of large numbers of low-wage workers--has always been a strength of the United States. And in time they always adapt and become good citizens. Almost all Americans count several such immigrants among their ancestors.

BUT--the problemright now is illegal immigration--and the truth that the anti-immigrant bigots and the Congress does not want to face is that it is the direct result of policy failures on our part. We had the chance to enact guest worker legislation and a reformed immigration policy 25 years ago--and it was blocked by the narrow-mindeded and by special interests--who are now the very ones complaining about the problem they themselves created.

So how to solve the problem? To be blunt, this is a simple exercise any undergraduate policy studies student could solve in about 5 minutes:

1) Enactt a permanent guest worker program--that specifies that a guest worker is not eligible to apply to start the process of becoming a citizen fora specivied probatioanary period
2) Allow current illegals who are otherwise law-abiding-and employed--to take part in the guest worker program, provided they register within aspecified time period (a limitedamnesty)
3) Specify that guest workers have access to only those social services for which their taxes can reasonably be expected to offset the cost (basically this means not being eligible for social security and similar long-term entitlements).

That-or some similar revamping of our broken immigration policy--will work. It won't stop immigration--which would be an extremely unwise move from both social, political, and economic perspectives. What it will do is ensure that immigrationtakes place in an orderly and legal manner, with proper oversight and security.

It would also stop the many thousands of employers who are making illegal proits by paying subminimum wages and not turning employee tax money they've withheld over to the governmet. As far as I'm concerned, these are the only real criminals in this whole mess--these and the racists who are using the ilegal status of immigrants as an excuse for forming lynch-mob vigilante groups.

Answer 3

Bush wasn't President when the first 20 million came in, nor the second 20 million, etc., etc., etc.

To stop it you must first ID the following and more:

If you can identify the groups, families, politicians, bureaucrats, courts, businesses, drug runners, art smugglers, other crime leaders, attorneys, agricultural industries, service industries, aero-space industries, employment services, contractors, manufacturing firms, churches, media and entertainment groups, money changers, and many other key players, inside and outside U.S. borders who TOGETHER have been making money off all facets of the U.S. immigration situation for years --- (legal or illegal it matters not) you will then have the key names of many, but not all of the players.

Second, with this list of names you must set up a search and remove mission. If you are successful illegal immigration will stop and legal immigration will slow to a trickle.

If you really understand how this situation works I am sure you realize that you will not be able to stop it and any attempt to do so would probably, as they say in the movies, find you sleeping with the fishes. I suggest you find another crusade

Answer 4

They come here to get jobs in a wide variety of fields. Require proof of legal work status by employers and they will leave. Right now employers are required to LOOK at three fake id's and that's it. The system is designed to allow illegals to work here but LOOK LIKE we are trying to stop them. A wall won't work because the majority of them come here on a tourist visa and then simply never leave. Politicians who want to build walls and fences want you to think they are against illegal immigration, but in fact are for it. Business has bought their office. And they're in both parties.

Answer 5

For the billionth time, build a 50 foot wall ten feet think with wire and claymores on top and a .50 cal with guard every 200 feet, a 30 yard killing ground in the middle cause you duplicate the wall behind it! Those that make get citizenship otherwise go the legal way!

Answer 6

I believe President Bush does want it closed. All it would take to stop them from coming is tell them what the Democrats are trying to turn this country into.

Answer 7

Raise the standard of living in those places by buying Fair Trade products and the like.

Answer 8

Jail anyone who hires them.
Jail (not deport) any illegal immigrant in America.

End of story.

--O, and make it easier to get a work visa. It will make them want to come here legally.

Answer 9

Snipers. They'll learn pretty quick after a handful are shot.

We cannot jail illegals. Our prisons are already overflowed. Deporting them is the only option.

Answer 10

Bush wants to build the wall.