1. Build a huge wall.
Why is this such an issue, China built a very large and amazingly secure wall centuries ago. Why in this supposedly advanced age of technology and machines can we not build something similar, but on a much smaller scale. Starting from the Gulf of Mexico and ending at the Pacific Ocean there should a stone wall measuring at least 20 foot high and 16 fet wide. Put a walking area atop it with stations for Border Patrol officers. Also place several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles along with portions of electronics surveillance systems and several brigades of National Guard Troops on call all along to thing and our border would be pretty damn secure. Also give more funding to the borders Law Enforcement Agencies, there are several Sheriff's along the border who could do a hell of job enforcing the nations laws if given the power, people, and funding to do so.
2. Deport whenever possible.
I am not saying we should start raiding parties and go door to door demanding papers. However, if any illegal alien is legally detained by any police officer in the United States, the police officer should be allowed to determine residency status and then place the subject in custody for deportation. Now if you begin deporting some here and there, many will go back willingly after the heads of families are deported. You do not have to deport all 20 million illegals here, just only about 25% would actually have to be deported. Also, if an officer pulls an Illegal over who has no drivers license, insurance, or proof of residency, the officer should be allowed to seize the vehicle and have the illegal deported. You do that a few times and I promise, illegals would be running for the border.
3. Make it harder for them to be here. This entails many things that needs to be done.
(a) Enforce criminal penalties on those who willingly hire illegals. Not so hard to understand, is it.
(b) Healthcare restrictions. I am not for not taking care of people whenever they needs it, but right now we have whole hospitals shutting down and filing bankruptcy because they take care of illegals who have no insurance and never pay their bills. Let's restrict when and how the illegals can be treated. First, nothing outside of life threatening should be treated at all. If an illegal walks into an E.R. with a cut thumb, they should be given a pamphlet instructing them how what to buy at Wal-mart in order to take care of it themselves. Also, if they walk in with something that is necessary to treat and is deemed potentially life threatening (i.e. fever, severe illness, what have you) then all money they have on their persons should be taken as payment along with extensive identifying marks, features, addresses, water bills, etc.
(c) NO WELFARE OR W.I.C. Plain and simple isn't it. If you are not a United States Citizen, then you are not entitled to any welfare or women with infant children (W.I.C.) assistance. I used to work in a supermarket about 10 years ago and I could not tell you how many times I had to take illegals around to store to show them what they could get under W.I.C. or how many times illegals would walk up with a Lone Star Card (Texas Welfare Credit Card) and buy $2000 worth of groceries. Then after buying all the free welfare food, the illegal men would pull a wad of money out of his pockets and buy $150-$200 worth of beer. Huge amount of money in their pocket and they use welfare, sad.
(d) Charge illegals for schooling. Right now the school systems are being ripped apart at the seams here in Texas. If any illegals want their children to be educated, they have to pay fees and penalties. If a child's residency cannot be established, the school should then demand that payment be made (somewhere around $2000-$3000) for each kid admitted into the school for each school year. I know here in Texas, we already have to pay fees if we sends our kids to districts where we have no residency (i.e. Dallas kid wants to go to Fort Worth ISD, parents pay fees upwards to $2000 to F.W.I.S.D. and kid goes to Fort Worth) Why can't we do the same for illegals regardless of residency within a school district, but based upon citizenship.
There are many details to hash out, but for the most part if you were to invoke any of the ideas listed above, many illegals would just go back because living here would no longer be the great joyride it is today for most of them such as free education, medical coverage, welfare, lack of deportation risks. Maybe some of my ideas my seem extreme, but if you put the pen to paper and realize the finanical impact these illegals could cause us over the course of the next 25 years, funding for these projects would be so much cheaper by far.