Incarcerating Invaders

From everything I've heard, this big immigration compromise everybody's talking about contains amnesty, which should be non negotiable: no rewarding lawbreakers.

However, it sounds like some Republicans are working on something to do with immigration that might have promise.

From NewsMax:

A Republican proposal to crack down on illegal border crossers with mandatory prison sentences also was to be discussed Wednesday, as leaders in both parties sought to alter elements of the broad agreement that are drawing criticism from their core supporters.

While I'm supportive of the principle behind this idea (i.e. holding them accountable for breaking our laws), I don't like the idea of the taxpayers footing the bill for incarcerating these invaders.

Now if we billed the Mexican government for it...