To the subject of illegal immigration.

Yes, it is illegal and they shouldn't do it.

You and I both want what these illegals are bringing. We want lesser skilled people who are hard working to start at the bottom with jobs you and I certainly won't do. We need them. They need the work.

You want them to "wait their turn" to come. Yes, it must be orderly and proper, but anyone who has dealt with government knows, their structures and waiting time are unreasonable. I've been to many foreign capitals where it takes weeks of standing in line just to get an appointment to try and get a visa. When someone can't feed their family, they will take the line of least resistance.

We need these workers. They want to be here. Why not set up a system that lets us all have what we want?

Here's the system:
1. Set up dozens and dozens of USA Employment Centers throughout ANY country that has workers who want to come here. Stay open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
2. Have employers who need workers pay a posting fee for jobs.
3. Let potential employees bring in a valid police record on themselves to "prove" they don't have a criminal record. Get it validated along with a birth certificate. (Will these be faked? Sometimes. But sneaking across the border is worse.)
4. To finish registering, now they pay a fee. The market has decided how much the fee should be. Desparate workers willingly pay "coyotes" to sneak them across the border, at the risk of their very lives. They pay the coyotes up to $5,000. Looks like the entry fee that the market is willing to bear is about $5,000. So we'll run a special and they pay $2,500 for a 3 year work permit and $5,000 for a five year permit. Cash. No credit.
5. Now they are issued an authentic Social Security card so that when they come here they pay taxes like the rest of us slobs.
6. Now they plan an orderly entrance into the USA by way of real roads or buses or planes or whatever.
7. For illegals here now, the same rules apply. To keep jobs here and not risk getting deported and permanently blackballed from ever coming to the USA, they go back to their country of origin from whence they illegally came, and go to the USA Employment Center, pay their entrance fee, get a real Social Security card and come back. Easily done in one day! By doing so they get instant amnesty from their illegal entry. They pay the fee and jump the little hurdles. Well worth it. Citizenship? Once they're here legally, the clock starts running on the citizenship clock.

They get what they want. We get what we want.

The income and savings of over $200 billion a year pays for the entire Border Security and Enforcement program as well as the USA Employment Centers.

Governments are usually the problem and when they get involved they create more problems than they started with. This solution, while still government led, introduces the proper elements of the free market into the solution.