We need to purge this country of illegal immigrants. It will take time but it is not that difficult -- we need the will to do it -- something Democrats lack.

Look to the Eisenhower removal of illegals in 1954 as the model. First we need strong work verification which EVERY EMPLOYER must use. We need strong interior enforcement which means MORE RAIDS. We need to punish these employers with HEAVY FINES so that if financially bites to hire illegals. We need to deny illegals any taxpayer funded benefits. We need to limit appeals of deportation orders -- we may need more BIA judges but we must limit their ability to grant immigration relief from deportation. We must punish sanctuary cities and take away any government allotted funds. CHurches who give sanctuary to illegal immigrants should have their tax exempt status removed.

Now with jobs drying up, raids underway many if not most illegals will self-deport --especially the ones living South of our Borders.

Now the question has been raised about countries who refuse to take their illegals back. Again Sen. Specter has proposed legislation to handle that situation -- deny visas to all residents of countries who refuse to their natives back. Also I would go one step further and freeze all foreign aid to those countries and maybe freeze money in US Banks to pay for the illegals in this country that they refuse to take back.

If an illegal has a serious illness in detention and before we can deport him I would force the immigrants home country to pay the bill as punishment for refusing to accept return.

Children of illegals (anchor babies) - parents cause their problem -- they could either take their children back with them and get citizenship for their children in their home country or surrender their child and all rights to welfare agencies.

I would NEVER allow an illegal immigrant to gain US Citizenship. I would never allow and Anchor Baby to sponsor their family for immigration to the US. Anchor Babies must lose ALL family reunification rigths.

The somewhere along the line we need a sensible reform of our immigration policy along with acknowlegement that agricultural workers are needed in some industries -- even as a child (an I am 73) I remember a program for agricultural workers in California called the Bracero program - But Senator Kennedy forced an end to that program. That program did not lead to too many overstays as they got shipped back and ppart of their wages withheld until they returned to Mexico.