Review of Immigration: Where to Start?

This is a review of the Blog posted by Caren Lee titled Immigration: Where to Start?

I am a litle confused about the first statemet you made about the borders. Where did you read that illegal immirgrants that are caught don't get sent home? Today, law enforcement has the authority to send aliens back to their home country. According an artical in the Las Angeles Times, the U.S. deported a record breaking number,392,862, of illegal aliens in 2010. Heres the link to the artical http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/06/nation/la-na-illegal-immigration-20101007. The problem is that they just keep coming back.

Another interesting stat from the LA Times article is that illegals crossing the boarders have decreased from 850,000 annually prior to 2005 to roughly 300,000 in recent years. In the research I did for my blog posting reviewing an editorial on immigration, the author stated that the recession had done more to reduce the number of immigrants trying to cross illegally than any bills that congress has passed on border control.
Here is a link to my blog: http://majorityofthepeople.blogspot.com/2013/01/immigration-reform-editorial.html.

However, I do agree with your statement about how unrealistic it would be to have all illegal immigrants in the U.S. to get in line for citizenship. It already takes a long time for many people. If they are already here and settled they would be better off hiding away and staying as illegals rather than paying a lot of money and having to wait years to become citizens.
I also agree with your statement that "even work visas are cumbersome to obtain". As I covered in my editorial review the source of the problem is how the US government distribute the visas between countries. Neighboring countries get the same number of visas as countries in Europe; yet they have 4 times the number of people applying for visas.