I think it’s sad you’re so ignorant that you honestly believe there is nothing that can be done about the illegals that are here. If this country got serious about immigration, and it may very well do that in 08 when this becomes an election issue, it would not be that hard to secure our border. Especially our Mexican border where the majority of illegals are coming from.
As for not being able to get the ones out that are already here, that’s BS as well. Take a two pronged attack. First, you pick up the easy to find ones. When you’re down south and on any given day you can drive by home depot and load up 10 illegals in your pickup you can’t tell me customs couldn’t catch these people. Second, you go after the places that are hiring them. Start spot checking worker W2 forms, especially in industries where illegal workers are common, and when you find people working without a W2 hit the company with a massive fine and deport the workers. Very quickly companies will stop hiring illegals which stops the draw for them to come here.
Sure, people would have to pay more for fruit, and lawn mowing services because the workers in that industry would no longer be undocumented and working for much less than minimum wage. Oh well, not everyone gets to afford everything they want. On the flip side though now all these workers are paying taxes, something the under the counter paid illegal does not.
Finally, in response to you getting insurance here without an SSN, you’re Canadian and when you’re in the US you’re here legally. There’s a big difference there between you and an illegal alien. It also doesn’t change the fact that the insurance companies were asked about this plan while people were fighting it and most agreed they wouldn’t issue a policy. And those that would were going to charge more than 99% of illegals could afford.