If living and working in the US without benefit of "documents" is an infraction, a crime on some level, then it is a crime undertaken in conspiracy--or collusion--with employers, who violate laws by employing the undocumented. When employers are rounded up and punished I may consider supporting mass deportations, but not before. Of course, the former will never happen.

A lot of us who want much stricter immigration enforcement would agree with you that it should start with employer sanctions: I for one am totally in favor of starting there.

And I'm unsympathetic to the argument that, "Oh, if we sanction employers the price of (name your food or other item) will go up!" If prices for American consumers depend on importing indentured labor to maintain them, then we should be paying the real economic cost, and if those things cannot be produced economically in th…

I "liked" your comment for its recognition of the abuses of the system. But I want to be clear: I don't support artificial restrictions on how many people can come from where. Find a way to track border crossing people once they enter. Fully fund processing so we can distinguish between refugees needing asylum, seasonal workers in various industries, and actual bad actors. Then basically let the market (quaint idea, yes?) determine who and how many come here, and for how long. Make paths to cit…