[Colonel]

Originally Posted by Madmartagen

if you try and convict immigrants as felons, then we're gonna have to pay for the legal, administrative and incarceration fees associated with putting them through the legal and prison systems.

I'm not sure I get the point. Preventing them from coming here, and prosecuting illegals is part of the cost of doing business, so to speak. Should we not prosecute murderers because it costs alot to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court and then to incarcerate them from the rest of their lives? What about white collar crime? What's a little insider trading among friens? Should we save money by not going after them? I know! Let's give them all amnesty as long as they promise never to do it again! Puhleese.

If their illegal, the only way they should be allowed to keep "continue working unless they commit crimes", is if their current job is pounding rocks in a Federal prison.