Mark Krikorian of CIS:

Sometimes it seems that the only people who are expected to comply with the immigration law are nominees for cabinet posts...

...A humane but uncompromising effort would welcome legal newcomers but do everything possible to prevent illegals from entering the country and prevent those who got through from living a normal life here.

Such a policy would cause the illegal population to start declining through attrition, eventually reducing the problem to a manageable nuisance rather than today's crisis...