Solving the illegal immigration problem requires a complex multi-step approach.  If you have a water main break, you first turn off the water then figure out how to best clean up the mess. Same with illegal immigration.

1. Stop the flow of illegal immigrants.
1. Increase security at the border.

                                                    i.     Actually fill open border patrol positions.

                                                  ii.     Companies of Marines wait at Pendleton for additional training for weeks. Send them to locations along the border for additional desert training/ support for border patrol. Nominal cost.

                                                iii.     It is an invasion…. Treat it as such.

2. Apply severe penalties for the Coytes and organizations that facilitate the transportation of illegal immigrants.
3. Elevate “being in” the US illegally to felony status.
4. Secure ID for employment to reduce the cheap labor attraction for employers.

                                                    i.     Use hardware already in place in most businesses for secure Visa/Master Card functions in conjunction with a Social Security card. Could be functional in days with a contract with current vendors.

5. Untie the hands of state governments

                                                    i.     Allow state governments to penalize employers who hire illegals.

                                                  ii.     Eliminate and penalize “Sanctuary Cities” by any name.

6. Provide Border Patrol the tools, manpower and financial support to do their job.
7. Physical or electronic fence as appropriate…. Needed but in reality an expensive long term tool.

2.  Re-think the legal immigration requirements and processes.
1. Revisit anchor baby status and its implications.

3. Address illegal immigrants already here in a compassionate but fair way.