Why on earth would any sane person want to live dense-packed like sardines into apartments and condos? We spent 13 years in rental houses with landlords telling us what color we could paint our walls, what plants we could grow in the flower beds, where the garden could be IF we were allowed to have one at all, ... You think people should aspire to this life instead of trying to get away from it ASAP?

Better yet -- restrict the federal government to its Constitutionally-enumerated powers.

What business is it of the government who buys what from whom? My summer job is attending a farm stand. Should I be obligated to see every buyer's driver's license and keep records (by hand, on paper), of the purchases of people traveling from out of state? And should the people from no-sales-tax states get a refund or a discount when they buy something at the physical location of a business in a sales-tax state?

Sometimes the author leaves nothing left to say except, Three cheers and double thumbs-up!

Exactly. The bottom line is that these people have no right to be in the US at all and should not be rewarded in any fashion for having broken into the US. It is a grave and fundamental injustice to reward lawbreakers for their wrongdoing.

Additionally, we can require that all employers who discover that they have inadvertently hired illegals -- as happened to the company I worked for last year when the HR person processing our W-2s realized that they had a dozen or so employees with the same SS# -- turn all the contact information they have for those employees over to immigration enforcement. Once we've got all that working and the border secured (via actually doing what the existing laws require), we can re-evaluate and see what steps to take next

In Re: "You can't deport X million people!" We can if we actually want to. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. We start with the easy cases -- the ones who identify themselves in public by carrying signs at rallies and acting as "activists", the ones who fail E-Verify, the ones who try to apply for driver's licenses and in-state college tuition, the ones picked up by the police for other reasons and discovered to be illegal, etc. It needn't be expensive – just transport them to the nearest border with their home country, usher them across, and let their own country deal with them from that point. Then we can work on targeted raids on those notorious "day labor" sites and on employers known to be hiring illegals. ...

4. Re-establish the principle that birthright citizenship applies only to people whose mothers where in the country legally when they were born -- as was historically the case in the US and as is currently the norm for nearly every other country on earth. 5. Re-vamp the legal immigration process to emphasize skills and the ability to be self-supporting. Require that immigrants are not eligible for any form of government aid. If they can't support themselves they need to go back to their home country. And as long as there are able-bodied people on welfare the US needs absolutely no unskilled workers whether permanent or temporary.

The Right, Just, and Moral approach to this problem: 1. Secure the border. Finish the fence and track down the visa over-stayers. 2. Make it impossible for illegals to work. Mandatory E-Verify coupled with strict penalties for hiring illegals. Companies that discover that illegals have duped them (as happened at the factory I worked for when, in preparing the W-2s last year, the HR person found about a dozen people sharing the same SS#), should have to turn over all the contact information they have for those people to Immigration. 3. Deport every illegal that comes into contact with any level of government. It is INSANE to give drivers licenses to illegals. You find out that the applicant is illegal, take him/her into custody and...

"The need for an increase in the number of high-skilled H1B visas is a simple fix that could be done tomorrow." What need? What was the unemployment rate among American STEM grads again?

It would help if the "moderate" Muslims who supposedly oppose the Islamists/Jihadists would start, um, actually OPPOSING the Islamists/Jihadists.