Until the underpinnings of the economics that drive this issue are addressed it will not be solved. In the past our (for the most part) laissez faire ways have been able to manipulate our society and working poor. But controlling the damage on a global level will be another thing. As long as our leadership continues to ignore the dysfunction of current globalization and our corporate fat cats are making hands to fists profits, band aids is all we shall see in their efforts. As the article states, doubling border patrols back in the 90's proved useless, and of course there are the "fence" advocates, yea...that one is a real historical homerun. Once again corporate leadership has lead us down the path of impasse as another ignored issue comes to a head.

Immigration is an issue that has never been solved by this country. "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it." The Chinese immigrants in the 19th century were anathema to Californians. Hard as they sought to control the three ports of entry for the Chinese, it did not and could not stop the influx of Chinese looking for "the city of streets paved in gold" and the source of all that money that their neighbors in China got from California. Even putting a price on their heads did not deter the influx. It is a delusion to think we can, have or will control immigration short of making the US a place no one would want to live in.
Perhaps we should consider what California and New York did at the turn of the last century and try to ride the horse in the direction it is going. Let the new immigrants come and build us a greater nation. Why not; how not?
What a conundrum it is to explain to young people why the Statue of Liberty welcomes the immigrant in New York and the border patrol would arrest those who offer water to a Mexican citizen dying of thirst in the Arizona Sonoran desert?
Are we schizophrenic as well as delusional?