How can we stop illegal immigration without killing people ?

I know how and also how to bring the army troops home. If the immagrants want to live in america lets recruit them into our army in exchange for a green card. Then we can station our troops at the boarder so no one comes over illeagly. That way our troops will be home and we have boarder patrol and the mexicans can fight for their freedom as we did us.

Stop giving them jobs, education, health care, food stamps etc.
If it doesn't benefit them they will look elsewhere. You're making it too darn comfortable for them once they get there.

The solutions is very simple.

Anybody caught hiring criminal immigrants goes to jail and has their business seized.

*poof*

Next day criminal immigrants no longer have jobs and start the trek home. Problem solved.

invest in poorer countries, take away the need for immigration. Check out the Marshall plan, only piece of US foriegn policy since 1945 to make any sense.

you can't just terminate businesses that hire illegals. they could easily say they didn't know or were fooled by fake papers. the way you get rid of illegal immigration is by making LEGAL immigration FASTER but not easier. it takes way too long to get your papers processed so that's why they come illegally.

My suggestion is that we need to eliminate the desire for them to come here. As an example, many come looking for jobs; so if you fine and shut down businesses that utilize illegal immigrant labor, perhaps fewer people will try to immigrate here.

Of course this is just one theory. The real question is how do we stop major corporations from exporting jobs overseas to exploit cheap labor and easy access to natural resources.

Take away all government benefits for illegals. Welfare, education, legal aid, library membership etc etc.
Deny any official recognition such as a driver's licence.
Remove all rights for illegals in civil law. i.e. an illegal would not be allowed to go to court to sue any person or company or entity for anything!

Impeachment of politicians who are in favor of legitimizing illegals...and not just one or two. Send a very loud message.Even if we just start recall elections all politicians will pay very close attention. Start with Senator Harry Ried of Las Vegas

As a US citizen I have had the experiences of marrying a canadian citizen and visiting the poorest parts of mexico also. After seeing the conditions that the mexican people go through, I cannot in my heart blame them for wanting to run. The problem we are trying to solve here is not whether they should come over the border or not. It is all a matter of how. My husband has spent 6 years of his life and well over 5,000$ to come into this country legally. His residence interview and his citizenship interview have been pushed back from the normal wait times while the government tries to accomodate those who are here illegally. On top of that the fees have increased over 300% from before 9/11. That does not include the attorney's fees. On top of that My husband is a skilled laborer and could easily get a good construction job. But in the US he can't. Why? He is an immigrant (and an italian-looking one at that). Apparently, any person who is an immigrant is not worth what his skills and experience profess. He is an immigrant. Company's have over-looked him, passed him over, or blatantly offered him less money than his counter-parts. He is legal, but that does not matter. He is a hard worker with skills, but that does not matter. All they see is immigrant. Apparently Canada's labor force has no skill in the US Employers eyes. Can I blame the illegals for that? YES! Why hire a legal when there are illegals just across the train tracks who will do it for half the cost? But on the other hand 'half cost' to an illegal is sometimes big bucks in comparisan to where they came from. This debate has lobbyists in the fray for monetary gains only. Don't be fooled. At the same time, what does the legal process do for weeding out the good from the bad immigrants. If I am not mistaken, the terrorists were "legal". What is congress's answer to that? Higher fees and longer wait times? Give me a break. So how do we fix something that is not working on either side? Scrap it and start over. Illegals would be more inclined to cross over to the legal side if the fees were not so high, the wait times for being able to work and make a living were not so long. Illegals would be more inclined to cross over to the legal side if there were not any profit savy companies around to employ, abuse, and under-pay them. It is these companies that keep them coming. Punish them for starters. Force them to retro-pay for all the cheap labor they employ or employed. Use that retro-pay to fund tightening the border and building a system that keeps track of everyone who comes across our borders, whether by plane, train, boat, car, horseback, or foot. Document everyone without recourse. Then sort out the bad from good apples. You commit a crime, you get sent back to whatever spit of land you came from whether the crime is small or large. The legal immigrants have decent jobs. The higher wages give our economy a boost. Companies who make practice of abusing and under-paying illegals will be punished severly and should be put out of business. Those who want to enter the USA will have no choice but to get documented to get a job. Where there is no water, there is no fish. And Immigrants should not have to fear the government deporting them for any reason, but they should fear and respect the law.