Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
That's empty rhetoric, no better than the one about ending our dependence on foreign energy. There is no "fix". As long as Mexico is a craphole and we have a free market system, we will get millions of illegal Mexican immigrants. Now I suppose you can make all of them legal, but then you'll get tens of millions of Mexican immigrants. There are only two ways you can solve this problem: make it prohibitively costly for Mexican migrants to enter this country or sharply minimize the benefit of them being here. No one is going to take either step, so pretending that a quick fix is around the corner isn't particular honest.
Perhaps I'm naive, but whats the problem with making them legal? If we can get them better integrated with the system, won't taxes and other such things get paid, offsetting social services costs?