Open the borders like France did.

Great idea! WAIT WHAT????????? thats dumb! then there is even a larger drug and crime problem, the amount of freeloaders would go off the charts and it all would blow up in our face, the the presedent or who ever passed that bill wouyld say "i screwed up"

Technically speaking, yeah. If you make it where it isn't illegal anymore then you don't have the problem of it being illegal. Problem is you haven't really solved the problem you've just changed the problems name.We have so many welfare and social programs now based on nothing more than the fact someone has their feet on the soil, we would literally be funding the world. Not to mention the national security issues this raises these days. Besides, look at France. Is that what we want to pattern ourselves after?

FREEDOM FRIES!!!

Did France really do this though? Since it's in the EU, if an American wanted to immigrate there, they would have to be a Nobel candidate for physics or something.

Throwing the borders wide open would invite a stampede of immigrants. They would overwhelm our programs to obtain legal status, the welfare system, public schools, jails and the like. Not to mention a huge influx of minimum wage workers (or even below and off the books workers) would drag the wages down and slow payraises to almost nil in countless job markets.

What we need is a real leader in the White House- someone who will "go crazy", a.k.a. actually abide by their oath and uphold the law. Open our borders (even more)? No.

that is totally idiotic

I hate this idea, but our borders are figuaritively and almost literally open.

Actually, this is probably exactly what I would do. Maybe it's impractical, but in my view borders are inherently opporessive - the idea that there is anywhere on this Earth each of us can't travel to simply by virtue of lacking of some tribal association is to me archaic. From outerspace, the only border you see marked is the Chinese wall, a monument to our warlike tendencies. Quite frankly, I see this as another non-issue being pushed by Republicans desperate to distract from the failures of their own policies and the Democrats' "culture of corruption" theme borne out of the fact that the Republicans seem to be capable of generating a scandal a week these days. The whole "war on Christmas" crap was essentially shut down by David Letterman. Nobody's taking social security reform seriously anymore. This is the last ditch defense in the most convenient scapegoat - 11 to 12 million people who simply came here to better themselves and their families, something I would do in their pl... Read more

When is the last time France had a good idea?

Let's just cut out the middleman, save the money and let anyone come in. That is what is happening now. The tootepaste is out of the tube--in, fact we are up to our armpits in toothpaste! The only way to stop this invasion is with violence. That is not in the cards. Can you imagine the ululating in the press when the first illegal was shot trying to enter? We are witnessing another great historical movement. Virile, lean and hungry hordes are invading and co-opting another effete, effeminate empire similar to the Goths, Franks, Vandals, Gepids, Huns, Turks, Arabs, etc. who invaded and took over the Roman Empire, first in the West, then in the East. The Hispanics, Orientals, West Indians, etc. are invading and taking over the fat, indolent, politically correct American civilization. The Eisenhower Administration was the last authority to round up systematically and deport aliens. Since then the Johnson Administration forced an immigration change through during the years the De... Read more

Yeah, now the immigrants in France are treated like second class citizens and practically live in a police state with the way the law enforcement there treats them. France lacked the massive infrastructure to effectively assimilate those people who, by and large, were poorly educated even by "Mexican" standards. The government very quickly made it difficult for these immigrants with no skills to draw social assistance, which is required to access any kind of state run skills development programs. The immigrants are marginalized and herded into virtual slums. Small wonder they are having the riots they are now. However, I feel this is an issue where you cannot pick and choose. Either the border is totally open, or it's totally closed,

What ever France does we should do the exact opposite, this worked out well for them.

I have got to learn to keep the satire to a minimum and be more serious, lol.