I agree with lazs and others......jail, fine, confiscate the businesses......do whatever it takes to make the employers aware that the type to stop hiring illegal's is NOW, and keep it up, let everyone know you are watching them from here on out.
Get positive ID via fingerprint, DNA, whatever method it takes, on the illegals, ship them to the US/Mexico border, give em a choice of helping to build not one, but TWO walls, with a no man's land in between......and if they refuse, they are persona non grata, PERIOD, no appeal, for a minimum of five years.
Last.......I love kids, but dang it all.........sit and talk to some of these folks and they will almost giggle at how ridiculous it is, but if they have a child born within our country, they automatically get to stay. It is a game to them........sneak in, get knocked up, have a baby, get to stay, or as one Hispanic group leader said on TV the other night, "beat the system".
Repeal or modify the 14th Amendment to make it where only children born in the US to LEGAL citizens get automatic citizenship. Make it where they dont have that automatic anchor that keeps them from ever being deported and see how many of them want to come here still. There are folks coming over here to work, spitting out a couple kids, then teaching said child about their Mexican heritage, NOT their AMERICAN heritage.
If you wanna come here to make a better life, come legally, embrace the American way of life and American heritage and traditions, not hold on to the old country. In my eyes, that is one of the most significant differences in the immigrants of old and the ones we see today.
Case in point..........
Buddy of mine works up in Liberal, KS at National Beef, where the workforce is made of mainly Hispanic workers.
He lives in Oklahoma, little tiny town, and a lot of the workers live there too. One of his best friends there came over illegally about 25 years ago, but became a legal US citizen several years back.
He talked to several of the illegals about becoming legal citizens or workers and, to a man, they all replied 'screw that, I'm Mexican, I don't want to be an American!"
He is as fed up with the crap as any natural born American citizen, probably even more so.
I wanted to buy the man a beer when he told them "then get the f*** out of my country and go back to Mexico"............