Quote Originally Posted by SadisticNature View Post
If you want to do something about the illegal immigration problem there are lots of good options:

(1) Proper border security (fully funded, etc.)
Agreed. This should be a priority. If you keep illegals out at the border you don't have so many problems about identifying them within the borders.

(2) Use one of the Amnesty programs that works
Why amnesty? This makes no sense to me. Basically, you are rewarding people who have broken the law.

I agree with you, though. Making the cost of hiring illegals higher than the cost of hiring legal labor would reduce the problems significantly. The problem there is that there have been numerous politicos who have been found to have hired illegals, either knowingly or not. Certainly, anyone who forges documents, for any reason, should be sent to prison, as well as being fined heavily. Simply make the risks so high that it becomes untenable.