To buildthefence - there were MANY things Lou could and might have said if 20 minutes or more of their time wasn't wasted on things like leprosy from south-eastern asians, of all things.
The 'humane' comment could just as easily mean ship the WHOLE family back in order to keep them together rather than just the Dad - or parents - (the ones who are illegal as their children born here are automatically American citizens due to the 'anchor-baby' law.) The child citizen could certainly come back once of age in order to make a better life for himself - and maybe by then we will have removed the 'anchor-baby' law that says that child can keep all sorts of people here, as well as invite all the relatives to come over too (legally) once he's 18. It would certainly be more humane to send the whole family back together - intact, wouldn't it?
My Guatemalan daughter-in-law has cousins here. They are perfectly nice, law-abiding, hard-working people. The husband/father worked 2 jobs for years to make a comfortable life for his family. He now has a decent job, has bought a home and is firmly entrenched in the American way of life. They now they have 2 small children (born in the USA - and therefore American citizens). Maybe the right thing to do, no matter how much I like this family is to send them back to Guatemala - en masse. If we make exceptions for the 'good citizen' illegals - where do we stop? As it is, they will all be 'humanely' allowed to stay because the children are Americans. Again, who knows just what he meant. That's why I want clarification before condemnation. We just don't know (and he didn't have the time to say) what some of these answers you pose might have been.
One thing I know - Lou has NEVER said Latinos are the enemy (which Senora Maria kept implying) - he says that ILLEGALS - from wherever they originated, should go back. The cheapest (by far) route for us would be to buy each of them a bus or plane ticket 'home'. It would cost MUCH less in the long run than paying all the welfare, health and education costs we will be paying for that family possibly for the rest of their lives. It's time to 'bite the bullet' - but that might take a complete turnover of Congress to have happen.