>>The concept of rounding up 11 million people (keep in mind a lot of these are families no less) and shipping them back to where they came from is simply impractical, cold hearted, and ridicilious. If such a ludicious plan was even attempted, inevitably what's going to happen is you'll have a few..errr..10+ million FAMILIES locked up somewhere..uhh..probably 99% of which would be Mexican. gee..kinda sounds like Hitler's Germany to me! Ha..one time "fee". There is a lot more at stake in doing something like that than the dollars it's going to cost. If some bozo politician gets something like that passed I'll be one of the people standing in the street waving a sign.
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>Why?

I just don't like the concept of rounding up millions of people and locking them up - especially when their "crime" is merely trying to make a better life for themselves and their families.

>If they pay for their becoming legal, and start paying taxes henceforth - they are financing the social cost of their stay here just like everybody else.

Many of these people actually do pay taxes. True, a lot of them are paid "under the table", but a lot of these people get paychecks with taxes taken out. Just last night I was at a grocery store watching what was obviously 20+ illegals cashing checks. There is one of those day-labor places a block away and I'm sure that's where everyone was coming from. Couldn't help but notice the guys check in front of me, it had taxes taken out. The 4 I watched cash checks had no ID's of anykind either - guess there is some kind of arangement with the store or something. Some of these people were buy things there too, which of course has sales tax.

>The businesses may not like that, but I'd surely like to see them normally salaried and normally taxed.

I agree with you on this one. The real cause of this issue is good ole' American greed. If you start busting the businesses that are taking advantage of these people with hefty fines and stuff, then they wouldn't be hiring these people to begin with. So if there is no work, then I suspect there would be a smaller number of illegals here.