Solutions to Illegal Immigration

To resolve the status of illegal immigrants who are already in this country there should be a program that works better than deportation and amnesty.

If amnesty is granted it doesn’t solve the future problem because a lot more illegal immigrants will still come here illegally.  Deporting millions of illegal immigrants who work and live here would be a problem economically.    The better solution and plan is to start a program that is safe and attracting to the illegal immigrants to come forward and report themselves. 

The first step of this program would be to differentiate how they entered the country cross the border (land or sea) or if they entered legally but their visas expired and they stayed illegally.  This would help determine home land security to organize the details and have categories.  If the illegal have been paying their taxes and they have got a clean criminal record then pay a fine only for being here illegally.   They need to learn English like many immigrants have done in the past.  After they have become legal to work and live in the U.S. then they can apply for residency and wait in a long term to become citizens. This is a reasonable solution to deal with illegal immigration and to accomplish the immigration reform plan and law.  This program will treat people with respect and help them to become legal and let them unite with their families as well.