To me, 'The Alien Problem' sounds an awful lot like 'The Jewish Problem'.

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And who will bear the costs. How much will cost to feed and care for 12 million people, men, woman and children? Incarceration will not stop the problem as deportation doesn't stop it either.

Another good idea, but no way can it be done. Anyway, you don't incarcerate them. You just send them back to Mexico, Central America, and wherever else.

12 million huh? Where are we going to put them exactly? Listen, these people are here because they're desperate to improve the situation for their families. They're braving rough terrain, arrests, beatings, harassment from vigilantes, exploitation from "coyotes," and even death either due to accident or trigger-happy border patrol/vigilantes. They're situation at home is often so grim, the threat of incarceration is hardly a deterrent. And these are people, not criminals. What are we going to do, let out all the rapists and murderers to incarcerate people desperate to feed and cloth their kids?

If we are going to spend tax dollars, lets spend them on deportation and more personell on the border. Did you know that in Mexico it is a citizen's right to make a citizen's arrest on illegals and have them immediately deported?

Highly impractical as others have noted, and a pipedream if anyone even really thinks this is possible. Any chance we can find out where his ancestors came from and deport Fred Durst?

At approximately $37,000 a pop annually for each illegal individual, there's no way the nation can absorb that kind of deficit for so many years. Politically, the fallout from such a policy both domestically and otherwise would also be intense - every "card" in the deck would be played by all the typical suspects. What's more, how might one actually round up 11,000,000 suspects anyway...care to even try? And while a plan of merely deporting illegal aliens in addition to building a wall sounds far more feasible, even that would be quite tough to pull off in numerous ways. Clearly, there are no easy answers to this mess that our political (mis)leaders has waited far too long to deal with...

Fiscally impractical and morally unadviseable. Incarcerating those whose primary motivation for crossing the border is to acquire work which will allow them to support their families is morally indefensible. On a fiscal basis it would require the expenditure of significant dollars at a time when resources are scarce. From an economic level it would be most damaging and disruptive to the state of the economy of this nation. Not worthy of consideration.

Not feasible, and not defensible. I think deep down, most of us would have a moral issue with incarcerating folks whose primary offense is wanting to work - even though they are breaking the law. Plus, as Louie mentioned, I'd rather see those dollars spent on programs that catch the problem upstream.

I don't think there's a soul out there who actually thinks this is feasible. We don't have enough room in our prison systems for our home-grown criminals; where are we going to put all of THESE guys? AND the children they brought over? Besides, I think most of us would rather see these people helped (either in their own country or ours, depending on how you see things).