What Should The U.S. Do About the Illegal Alien Problem.

This sounds like a good idea...my only question is would the community service part be strictly supervised? If not, they'd be running the second they got out of sight. I like the part about billing their country but not just for their travel expenses but also for whatever it costs to jail them for the length of their sentence. Overall it sounds great!! On a side note, something needs to be figured out for the anchor baby problem also. An anchor baby is a baby that is born in the U.S. to illegals. Since it was born in the U.S. it automatically is a citizen whether it was conceived here, whether or not the parents are citizens or anything else. The problem is once the baby is born here the parents automatically get to stay as well. This brings to light the problem of more illegals finding a loophole to stay here not to mention they get Welfare assistance to raise the child. MERRY CHRISTMAS!! **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

Makes alot of since to do that. might help get rid of them. and I just read the first responce and I just cant beleive Memphis flying that flag in their store! . The KKK ought to go in there and tear them all down!. DOnt know where they come off doint that. just a few years back there were no MExicans in the state then I go back home and I have seen several even restrants took over by them . I like the food but if they are illeagle they need to go home. I read Where Hersey was sending their factory to Mexico. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr that puts a whole town out of business . I say throw the illeagles out and bring out factories back home!

At long last, a sensible solution. Now just try to get the neocons to go for that. They don't like easy. They like spending funds the country doesn't have to feed and clothe and give medical care & social security to the non-citizens while so many in this country can't even manage to get an address so that they can apply for a job. What I'd like to know is that IF all our factories are going to Mexico, why they hell are they still coming here for work...unless that story is a farce and the jobs are going somewhere else (China maybe) and being shipped back into the U.S. via Mexico... Maybe 5 years ago these people were doing jobs that Americans "won't" do (imo, not for $3 a day they won't), but now that their country supposedly has most of our factories, I'm sure there are plenty of Americans willing to pick vegetables and clean houses. As a matter of fact, we have all kinds of new cleaning services popping up all over the place around here. I've also heard my construction working uncles & cousins talk about non-citizens threatening non-union workers because they want the non-union jobs open for their non-citizen buddies. My son almost threw a guy off a roof the other day because the jackasses were talking smack about him in Spanish. Guess what, some Americans are fluent in Spanish. My son understood what they were saying and went off. Their American-Cuban (yes, legal) boss told them about it too. Either they want jobs or they don't and if they do they'd better damn well show respect to his other roofers. It's getting to the point where people are going to start getting nasty about it. There's a Wal-Mart in Memphis that has Mexican flag after Mexican flag hanging from the ceilings in their aisles--in TN of all places. I gotta get off this subject. My blood is starting to boil. This is the land of the stars & stripes dammit.

Your idea will never pass. A inmate working for room and board but no pay is slavery. And it sounds too much like what the Nazis did to 6 million Jews and 5 million others.The U.S. is still the land of the free.If someone tried this plan it would be more of an uproar than what we have already.There are ex cons that have done their time and still can't jobs and you want present inmate to get jobs and do them for free. There will more companies withholding jobs from citizens and legal immigrants so they can use the free labor from the jails.So more people will be out of work and there still will be more people coming. Because sadly, a U.S. jail is better than their life in their homeland. And charging their homeland a fee to transport them bak home? if they had that type of money and was able to dole it out, many of their citizens would have stayed at home in the first place.

What an excellent and easily implementable idea! Good thinking on this one! And of course it should remain policy permanently. This is the easiest solution I have yet to see to this ridiculous, money hogging, people dividing issue! So. How do we get this to congress? Interested in getting an internet petition going? One thought though. How many illegals, proportionately, get arrested? I would love to think a lot (if not most) of them do, but I wonder what the real numbers are. I'd be happy with only 50% to start.

For me this is plain simple. Deport illegal aliens back or jail them or something. That's why it's called ILLEGAL in the first place.

Sounds really good. But didn't I read somewhere that Mexico refuses to take back the illegals who are law breakers? Do we not have an extradition aggreement with Mexico?

You know what i say.... when we stop goijg to their country then they can stop coming to ours, but we go to their countrys, why is it eight for us to beable to go their and them not here?. we go to and CANCOON all the time . why cant they come here? Oh and by the way... mexicans are not the only immagrants... indians from india, jordainians from jordan,and in ny there having problems with the russians, i just hate when u say immagrants everyone thinks mexican.puerto rico.people come here all the time...but we go to all these places as well.. i think mabey they should lift the tax free for 7 years thing. and when they comr they must make a effort to pass the citizens test,and get a visa,, if u come and do nothing.. well then of course. you dont get nothing if you dont work for it... but most come here to give their familys a better life,better education. wouldnt you want that for your family no matter what country you lived in?

Figured I'd throw my own idea into the ring: the U.S. could increase it's ability to process citizenship applications in a faster manner. Many illegal immigrants are just those who didn't want to bother waiting two years to get into the U.S. Now if we could get those applications processed in a couple months, we could spread the word into Mexico that the risk of illegal immigration is no longer worth it. Again, it's just an idea.

Alright, I have been debating rather or not to respond to this for a while as I do not have any solutions of my own to offer, nor much of any intelligent insight on this issue, but just an opinion and that is all. I believe that most immigrants, both legal and illegal are primarily just trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. It is my opinion, that jail and or prison should be reserved for scumbags, such as murders, rapist, armed robbers, outright thieves, etc. etc. etc. I would not classify a person who is trying to make a better life for themselves and their families as a scumbag. For that reason, it is my opinion that this is not the solution, although I do not know what the solution is. Again, that is just my opinion.