Well said in plain English, gresch.

May I humbly suggest an integrated approach:

1. Simplify the employment and tax codes for small businesses in America. Our system is so f--ked up as far as making it easy for American small businesses to grow. We need border kiosks set up where by you buy a work permit, get fingerprinted pay for a background check, buy a workers comp insurance card, and go to work. Want to get paid, gotta have your cards in order.
2. Dis-incentivise American businesses to hire illegals.
3. Cut off all free medical care to illegals while ramping up a simplified and portable employee paid and controlled workers comp insurance program (think pre-paid cell phone service)
4. Freeze admission to schools for new illegal students while making sure the kids already in school are not tossed out. Make sure they pay some form of tuition for this.
5. Phase out the bi-lingual crap over a 3 year period. It's not that I don't like other languages, but English is the great assimilator; people who talk and sound alike will grow together, not apart.
6. Have a two strikes law as far as illegal border crossers. Caught once, you get finger printed, retnal scannned, dressed in a white jumpsuit and good bye. Caught twice, six months hard labor in a labor camp. After a certain amount of time, American scofflaw companies should also incur severe penalties as well. Coyotes, drug smugglers and gang members all get a day in a military court (open to the press) and then a bullet to the head.
7. Place a 25% tax and a cap on all Western Union out-country remittances. We need to monitor these monies. You want to come here, work hard, and build a life legally? Great, but let's encourage the money and the hearts and minds to stay in America.

Any other ideas?

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