RDG...
"Plain and simple, make it impossible for these criminals to find jobs in the US and they will go home."
You are correct and I have been advocating that same thing for years. Make it a serious crime to employ any illegal alien for any reason, and enact serious penalties (mandatory fines and jail time) and enforce the laws relentlessly. We also need to deny social benefits to all illegals -- the hospitals should treat them and then the authorities should deport them. Finally, it is imperative that birth on American soil shall no longer automatically confer citizenship.
If we did these things, the result would be that all the illegals would head back home.
mlsoft