Efforts to pass an immigration overhaul bill that was the result of months of work by senators, staff and administration officials fell apart Thursday, but party leaders vowed to keep trying.

THANK GOD! (or whatever deity, or other entity, thing, or object you worship)

Instead of vowing to "keep trying", how about we simply ENFORCE those laws and strengthen the laws we have in place?

I (naively I'm sure), thought that the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY was created to SECURE our HOMELAND. It seems that our Representatives and Senators feel that DHS can't provide that facility, so instead, let's waste more taxpayers $$$ by wasting time on a bill that the American People don't want.

It would seem to me that there is a two pronged approach here, that might actually help solve the problem.
1) Take the $$ from DHS and give it to the Border Patrol, and any other Law Enforcement agency that is willing (if the $$ are available) to police our borders and remove the illegals from our cities
2) Modify the current laws, so that any person/company/organization who uses illegal labor is fined heavily. Channel those funds received from fines directly to those organizations who are dedicated to removing the illegals from the country.

These two simple ideas, IMHO, would start (and only start) the process of removing the illegals from our soil.

If those people who are here illegally wish to come back, they can do it in the same fashion my Great-Grandmother did, when she emigrated from Germany, and how my Mother did, when she emigrated from Canada. Legally.

That's my $0.02, YMMV.

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