Pass feasible immigration legislation AND budget the money to enforce the laws. The President called for 2 BILLION, where is Congress? The House will not consider the Senate bill, where is the House version? Boehner says its a dead issue.
A lot of the problem is in the laws.
If people are paying $3K-$5K to coyotes to get them across the border, that tells you something about the burdensome bureaucratic morass to slog through, in order to come to America legally.
All the Law Reform in the world isn't going to slow-down the tidal wave spilling over the southern border.
Law can control how long it takes to get permission to come here.
Law CANNOT control the excess quantities of people trying to get in, whom we do not want.
The Law is not the problem.
The speed with which one attains permission to come here or stay here is not the problem.
It is the massive and sheer frigging numbers of people trying to get in.
Huge masses of people who would be denied due to sensible quotas per country.
The laws we have now work just fine.
We just don't enforce them.
And we let business get away with using them for near-slave wages.
We don't need comprehensive reform of our immigration laws.
We need comprehensive reform of our punishments for those who give jobs to Illegal Aliens, and who otherwise incentivize Illegal Aliens to come here and stay here.
Letting-in X per year is fine.
Letting-in X+10000% per year is a different animal.
Reform, my ass.
Immigration Reform = Codespeak for Shamnesty.
Pathway to citizenship?
Horseshit.
Self-deportation is the answer for beating back this invasion.
Creating conditions that make Illegal Aliens want to go home, at their own expense, and under their own power.
Show us that you have renewed your commitment to fulfilling your oath and enforcing the laws of our Republic.
Show us that you can stem the flow at the border, and that you can regain control of the border.
THEN come back and talk to folks about so-called Reform.
Otherwise, we're just kicking the can down the road again.
The last time (1986), we let in 3,000,000, as part of Shamnesty I, and were promised that it was a one-time shot, never to happen again, and we got 12,000,000 more (400% more) for our trouble.
What happens after Shamnesty II? We let in 12,000,000, wait 30 years, and once again have 400% more on our hands... another 48,000,000 (12,000,000 X 4)?
Bad idea.
