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Of course it should be a crime. Any illegal seeking any services paid for by me should be arrested and deported. Any illegal in ANY interaction with the government should be deported immediately. Straight from where they are grabbed, too. All assets confiscated, etc. Sent home with the clothes on their back.

I'm all for grossly increasing LEGAL immigration, but being illegal should be disqualifying for future legal status. If you sneaked in, and quotas are raised, you should have to sneak OUT, then come back in legally. Any government record of their existence at all here before trying to get in legally should be disqualifying.

We NEED the labor, actually, and the situation will require more, not less immigration moving forward. Still, it needs to be the way we want it to be. Legal, orderly, and not letting in people we don't want to let in.

Also, the type of people who are illegal are also not net contributors to taxes. Only the top tier of taxpayers even pull their own weight, everyone else is a drag on the system (entitlements). The US should consider attracting more of the high end (the ability to buy a place at the front of the line via investment in the US—start a business with several hundred grand or more, and buy a house, and you can enter immediately).