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The fact that the demand side of immigration is underaddressed highlights the deliberate broken-ness of the US immigration system. It drives down US wages and makes for a readily available and exploitable CHEAP workforce.

Look how many people voluntarily left the US, and how many stopped coming, when jobs dried up during the Great Recession, for proof that reducing employment makes the "immigration problem" take care of itself.

I think cutting off the welfare to them would work just fine.

@ Patrick
I think your sign "ILLEGALS" misrepresents illegals by tagging them as being from Mexico.
Can you change it to maybe something that represent all types of "illegals"?

Jailing doesn't go far enough. There should be huge fines as well.

We should create the biggest jail ever and send them all over there so they don't come back. Build the jail! Build the jail!

Can you propose a way to meet the demand for products these jailed employers produced before they were jailed??

Better yet have the employers build the wall.
ddshutlz says

Build the jail! Build the jail!

Spot on as usual Patrick.

Patrick says

Jail the employers of illegal immigrants

This Trump Presidency has really got Patrick worked up.

Immediate death penalty for hiring an illegal alien.

ddshutlz says

Can you propose a way to meet the demand for products these jailed employers produced before they were jailed??

How about hiring Americans?

ddshutlz says

I think your sign "ILLEGALS" misrepresents illegals by tagging them as being from Mexico.

It's reasonably correct, since just over half of illegal immigrants are from Mexico:

In 2012, 52% were from Mexico, 15% from Central America, 12% from Asia, 6% from South America, 5% from the Caribbean, and another 5% from Europe and Canada.[4]

Patrick says

Jail the employers of illegal immigrants

Don't do this to me Patrick.
My gardener and the cleaning lady might be illegal. If they are gone, my wife will make me do all the work.
That is cruel and unusual punishment, which is against the law.

I bet there are gardeners and cleaning ladies who are legal and will work for just $1 more per hour!

this includes people who pick up illegals in front of HomeDepot.

Why is it racist to enforce border laws?

ddshutlz says

So if I want to be reasonably correct I would call you a racist?

Patrick says, "Democrats get more Hispanics who reliably vote Democrat."
While I agree taht jailing employers is more effective and cheaper than jailing illegal immigrants by cutting of demand and not the ever adjustable supply,
I respectfully disagree. Hispanics tend toward conservatism and are far from a homogeneous group. Cubans have as little in common with Mexicans as Berkeley leftists do with southern conservatives. Spaniards of Spanish birth are different than either of those groups and so on. It is as rude and false as if all European heritage persons can be described by white. The Irish are not the English (I have traces of both, talk about a mixed heritage!)

You left out the most important item.
The fact that conservatives are actively campaigning to deport illegal aliens.
If you or your family are in danger of being deported, that would seem to override all other considerations.

georgeliberte says

Hispanics tend toward conservatism and are far from a homogeneous group. Cubans have as little in common with Mexicans as Berkeley leftists do with southern conservatives. Spaniards of Spanish birth are different than either of those groups and so on. It is as rude and false as if all European heritage persons can be described by white. The Irish are not the English (I have traces of both, talk about a mixed heritage!)