Quote from optionpro007:
Hopefully you have ideas of steps/programs that are or have not already been implemented.
Easy, this is no rocket-science:
Step 1. Deport those who demonstrate on May 1st. Prosecute their employers to the fullest extent of the law - the primary charges will be hiring illegal immigrants and tax evasion. This will go a long way to show them that they are not in France.
Step 2. Start closing the borders immediately. More border patrolmen, more minutemen, build a fence if necessary, barbed wire, make it electric just in case, minefileds if necessary. Whatever it takes, its our border.
Step 3. Inform the nation including all employers that on May 1st 2008 - two year aniversary of the first illegal immigrant strike new laws will go into effect and hiring illegals will no longer be tolerated. That should give them more than enough time to restructure their business and prepare to comply with the new law. Once the law is in effect, employers who break it will be fined $50,000 per incident (half payable to anonymous informers), spend 5 years in jail and their property will be confiscated. Electric chair, lethal injection, lynching and deportation of employers to the country of residence of his illegal workers should not be ruled out either.
Step 4. Announce that on November 1st 2007, half a year before the new laws become effective the government will open registration for the guest worker program. In order to qualify a potential guest worker must have documents proving that he was in this country on May 1st 2006 when the new policy was announced. The applicant must speak good english and sing The Star-Spangled Banner in english, not in spanish or mandarin - after all immigration is cultural, not only economic issue. He must be willing to have a tracking device implanted under his skin at employers expense. The device is to be removed when the person qualifies for a green card. Of course the person will be expected to accept in writing "ONE strike and you're out" conditions.
How is that for a plan - tough but fair, economically viable and realistic.