I disagree about one thing, though: I don’t really care whether they speak English. My grandmother never really learned it despite 70 years in America. We have a long history of non-English-speaking immigrant enclaves (German, Chinese, Italian, Yiddish, etc.), and it did us no harm.

And I’ll add this: it’s not enough to punish lawbreakers, you also have to take a good hard look at the law. Given that current labor laws have institutionalized criminal practices throughout a few industries (people employ illegals so they can underpay & underprotect them) do we need to lighten the regulatory burden on those industries? Can construction, agriculture, and maintenance actually function without some kind of safety valve? I’m from a union family and I hate the idea of giving up hard-earned labor rights, but maybe they need to be relaxed in some industries.