The reason why there is such a mass influx of illegal immigrants is because of the all the red tape people would have to go through in order to get here legally. It should not take years for them to come. However, even if it was easy to come here legally, it is still easy to come here illegally. As a national security measure, a fence needs to be put up like the one Israel uses as I have mentioned. Prosecuting businesses that hire legals would be a good measure but hard thing to do. I defiantly do not want to have a national I.D. card that has been proposed to implement enforcement. First, the access needs to be cut off, then deal with those already inside.
Whoa! I said this somewhere already about the red tape and length of time to get to the US to work legally!
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
*/puts on tin foil hat
HA! yeah! try to steal my thoughts now, MF'er!
Deal with the motivation for coming here first. The jobs.
Go after employers that employ illegals. As long as there's people willing to employ them that don't fear much penalty they'll being coming for those jobs.
(see below response to both you and Goth.)
The stem of the problem is lack of a good life in their own country. It is very hard or likely impossible to stop those who hire illegals, especially when they are paid under the table.
(see below response to both you and Spike.)
Well that's certainly true. We don't have much control over that at all.
I don't think it would be that hard. We come down on criminals that aren't leaving much of a paper trail all the time.
Although it's true we don't have control over what happens in Mexico, they are their own sovereign country, there are things we can do without the assistance or support from Mexico's government.
Goth is right about the people working under the table, but many companies provide fake or stolen ID's for Mexican workers to work without getting caught. Up the prosecution rate and up the penalty and you will see companies thinking twice about hiring without those visas/papers. There is never going to be a proper answer to those that work under the table in sketchy jobs that are for say, a single day or a week. These employers are going to always be harder to catch. But the Mexican's would rather work without running for cover like cockroaches from immigration. They'd take the legit route over the illegitimate route any day of the week. It just isn't offered in the sense of practicality.
If there is still an influx of illegals after such measures then put up the fence. But why not try the most obvious fixes first?