I'd say start with the companies that have the most Social Security numbers that don't match.  Run the sweeps there, anyone with a bogus SSI # is checked and deported if here illegally.  The company is investigated and fined per incident if found to be complicite.  No racial component as the investigation is done solely on the basis of KNOWN illegal activity.  The fines can self-fund the enforcement.  And do it seriously no less than one sweep per state per week.  It would make people aware of the need to follow the law and employers aware of the same.  I believe it would quickly erode the supply of jobs and thus the demand for and motivation of people coming here illegally

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.   

Yes, when they start name-calling they've lost and know they don't-have-a-leg-to-stand-on.  

Have you seen the article HERE that misterbill recommended?  These are the real issues.  The following is an excerpt from "Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the People’s Will" by Fredo Arias-King, please read the entire article[emphasis added].

… Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others got it right... Indeed, the American political system works remarkably well. However, there are a handful of topics where the elites do not act in the interests of those they govern. Of these, the most notorious is the contentious issue of immigration. Why are politicians so keen on mass immigration while the common American is not? ...

… I met with almost 80 U.S. congressmen and senators ... the basic finding was: Indeed, American politicians are overwhelmingly pro-immigration … and they do not always admit this to their constituents... This was true of both Democrats and Republicans.

These empirical findings seemed to confirm … a political "perfect storm"… why would nine-tenths of the legislators we spoke with be so keen on increasing immigration?

… Most of them seemed to be aware of the negative or at least doubtful consequences of mass immigration from Latin America, while still advocating mass immigration.

The familiar reasons usually discussed by the critics were there: Democrats wanted increased immigration because Latin American immigrants tend to vote Democrat once naturalized …; and Republicans like immigration because their sponsors... But there were other, more nuanced reasons that we came upon… and probably more difficult to detect without the type of access that we, as a Mexican delegation, had.

… one of the main ones … in what the U.S. Founding Fathers called "usurpation." Madison, Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and others devised a system and embedded the Constitution with mechanisms to thwart the "natural" tendency of the political class to usurp power—to become a permanent elite lording over pauperized subjects ...    

While Democratic legislators … interested in those immigrants and their offspring as a tool to increase the role of the government in society and the economy. ... and "dependable" in supporting a patron-client system and … to circumvent the exigencies of political life … expected daily by the average American.

Republican lawmakers … (all except five) were unambiguously in favor of amnesty and of continued mass immigration (at least from Mexico)... they believed that these immigrants are more malleable than the existing American: That … they could … become dependent on them. Republicans seemed to idealize the patron-client relation with Hispanics ...

… the Republican enthusiasm … that they could weaken the restraining and frustrating straightjacket devised by the Founding Fathers and abetted by American norms. In that idealized "new" United States, political uncertainty, demanding constituents, difficult elections, and accountability in general would "go away" … Hispanics would acquiesce and assist in the "natural progress" of these legislators to remain in power and increase the scope of that power. In this sense, Republicans and Democrats were similar.

Bill Richardson, … governor of New Mexico, kindly stopped to speak to our delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. He commented favorably to us: "What do Hispanics want? Fully funded government programs!"...

Some legislators had also mentioned to us (oftentimes laughing) how they had "defanged" or "gutted" anti-immigration bills and measures, by neglecting to fund this program or tabling that provision, or deleting the other measure, etc. "Yes, we passed that law, but it can’t work because we also…" …

…. My feeling is that if the vote on granting amnesty to the illegal migrants was up for a secret vote, then perhaps we would see a 90 percent vote in favor, coinciding with my random sample from six years ago…

Smart money is on Byrd still having active ties to the KKK. Of course, putting the word "active" in the same sentence as the dishonorable senator from West Virginia is a mistake. He is rather nonsensical these days. But if anyone were to dig, I bet that his personal constituents and family members are still tied to, if not members of, the KKK.

Once you teach that ol' Byrd to be a racist, he will never forget how.

Those existing laws aren't broken, they are ... under-enforced.

... hope to fool the public into believing that a more complicated system will work.

Yes!  Much more complicated.  Great point.

Our anti-illegal immigration laws were fine until a few politicians decided to pander rather than enforce.

Our "broken" system is easily and quickly fixed, Messrs Kennedy, Bush, McCain, et al.  Just pick up the phone to ICE.

Gal

For those illegals sending money home deportation REUNITES families

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.