I agree, it should be a comprehensive all around solution to solving all of the illegal activities.

If we reform the immigration system to allow more immigrants to enter legally, there would be no need to come illegally. As an immigration attorney, I have had many calls from employers wanting to know how to help their trusted long-time workers "get legal." I have to tell them that at this time there is no way for that to happen. They tell me they can't get US workers to take the job, or that US workers quit after a day or two because the work is too hard. I tell them there's nothing I can do to help them. Not all employers want to exploit workers. Some of them want to do te right thing, but the broken immigration system doesn't allow them to do it.

What we realy need is a 30 year moratorium on all immigrants. Perhaps that would be sufficient time to straighten out the mess we are in.

sounds a lot like E-Verify to me and I'm all for that!

I disagree, it is not in our country's best interest to lower the standard of living of the majority, by opening the door to higher levels of legal or illegal immigration simply so that employers have a pool of lower wage employees to pick from. There is a point where the purchasing power of those remaining becomes smaller than the market of items purchasable at the mean wage. Corporations are not trying to reduce the cost of goods, they are trying to increase their market share, and at a highest profit margin. Immigration, like any other resource, has to be managed. With 20 million people out of work in this country, do we still need immigration? I don't think that's true. There may be times when increased legal immigratin is needed, but it certainly isn't now. And, if the wait for a legal means into our country is too long, they can simply stay where you are, this isn't McDonalds. This idea of exploiting the lowest wage earners (illegals) for the best interest of the most wealthy (corporations), should be upsetting to those working for less than minimum wage. I know it's upsetting to the legal citizens who would do those jobs, if they paid a fair wage. And to those young adults just out of high school with no chance for college. Our children are competeing with illegal immigration for summer jobs, after school jobs, and getting started in the workforce in general. We can't help anyone, if we don' first help ourselves. And to all those outside our country who wish to come here, they do have the choice to ban together to improve their own countries. We can not solve the worlds problems, by importing them.

One of our main problems is that we deal with countries that use slave labor like China. If we were to quit doing business with these kinds of countries and only do business with countries that have the same labor laws as our own. You might ask how would this help, well most of our companies go to the slave labor countries to get cheap labor and this makes our companies here in the United States seek out cheaper labor to compete with companies using slave labor. If we deal with only countries that have the same labor laws as our own companies would have to return to these countries and start paying a decent wage to all workers. Yes it might raise the price of the products but you must remember it will also raise your salaries. We would no longer be supporting slave labor and building up countries that would like to do nothing more than destroy us. We should work on building up our neighbors Canada and Mexico so there would be no need for illegal immigration.

This socio economic class has used lawsuits to stop progress. Our farms are becoming less competitive and we have depended on imported farm labor because they figured out how to sue the public to attain that goal. UFW V. UC Davis, 1979. Likewise a lot of the other work they are doing could probably be improved through entrepreneurial skills or by doing away with some of the bad cultural habits (like fast food and convenience shopping) that has contributed to a dependence on illegal labor. Automation has already replaced a lot of low skilled food processing jobs and will continue to do so if given freedom to progress. Hotel and other service jobs can be reorganized by entrepreneurship. The need for an imported, informal workforce is actually rather small.