Not simply fined. We already have fines of 5000 per instance for hiring an illegal. But we don't enforce the current laws. Make mandatory prison time for each instance and you will find that employment of illegals will plummet. The rich who spurn the fines will not ignore prison time.

May I suggest a more direct approach? Simply deny illegal immigrants all government benefits and punish anyone hiring an illegal immigrant (if they knew or should have known) with a substantial fine and mandatory imprisonment for each instance. Most illegals would go home if they were denied benefits and the right to work. Before anyone argues that we need workers (which we don't), we can certainly provide work permits to aliens who want to legally enter the U.S. for work.

Surely you understand that the AARP does not care about anyone, including its constituents. It is a business which will say and do anything to obtain funding from the elderly. It feels no obligation to do anything good for those who fund it. This is evident by the numerous programs it supports which harm the elderly.

"It turns out that if legislation relies on moving pieces, state partnerships, and delayed implementation, the legislation is just poorly designed. If it had been designed to provide affordable health care, it would have been poorly designed. It was designed, however, to bankrupt health insurance providers or cause them to stop being insurers so that the government can step in and implement government only health insurance. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do -- destroy America's health insurance industry and medical community.

... living here. Many others will decide they cannot benefit from coming here. Serious reform will requires serious action.

A fence is certainly OK, but no fence will ever stop border crossings. Nor does building a fence address the millions of illegal immigrants who are already here. We can put a screeching halt to illegal immigration and send many of those who came here illegally by simply making it unprofitable to be in America illegally: 1) Pass laws to prohibit any government entity from providing benefits to an illegal immigrant including welfare, tuition, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, foodstamps, housing, etc. 2) Prevent illegal immigrants from working in America. Make hiring an illegal immigrant punishable by a substantial fine and mandatory jail time for each instance. Many illegal immigrants will simply go home when they are unable to make a...

Homophobia is a term created by the left to mischaracterize and incite. The term broken down by root meanings is "man fear" but it was created to mean "fear of homosexuality". No one fears homosexuality or homosexuals. No one. The term is operatively null except in its ability to insult.

DOMA is not federal intrusion. A state does have the right to sanction single gender marriage. The state has no power to require the other states through the federal government to support that decision with benefits. A large majority of the states have constitutional definitions of marriage which exclude single gender relationships. It is entirely appropriate for the federal government to model its benefit structure to match the majority of the states.

continued ... with emotional and monetary support. Society finds traditional male/female marriage to be a stabilizing factor in society. It is a good model for producing and rearing children. There is no benefit to society to sanction single gender relationships. Aberrant behavior does not benefit society. Being tolerant of behaviors is not equivalent to sanctioning behaviors. Make no mistake, all behaviors are choices. Society does not choose to encourage aberrant behaviors.

Liberals want continually to redefine both individuals and society. Of course Ronald Reagan was a conservative. As is usual with liberals, they also redefine the issues to hide their real agenda. Unfortunately, they often get conservatives to accept their redefinition. The issue is not about denying anyone the right to marry. Any couple (or triplet or any other number greater than one) of people of any mixture of genders can marry at any time. Marriage is a commitment. Any group of people can make that commitment. It does not require the approval of anyone not involved in the decision to make that commitment. The issue is about licensure and money. Society licenses traditional marriage and provides traditional male/female marriage...

Fencing is certainly a good intervention and should be continued and strengthened. But we should address the real reason that immigrants come to America illegally. they come for financial benefits -- jobs, welfare, medical care, housing, food stamps, education, etc. We should: 1) Make illegal all federal and state benefits afforded to illegal immigrants. 2) Make hiring an illegal immigrant punishable by mandatory jail time -- no exceptions -- except when the employer did not know and could not have known that the employee was illegal. That jail time should be mandatory for each instance. When denied the ability to make a living, our illegal immigrants would begin to deport themselves.