I’ve always loved the sight of orange trash bags on the California freeways. People who made some wrong decisions pay for it by improving our community.

I would like to see this implemented for non-criminal illegals to earn their citizenship into our country.

Starting 7-8 years ago, assign a Community Service sentences to illegal aliens inside the US. Not sure about what the proper amount should be, but those that jumped the border within the last year will have a much larger sentence then those who came 7-8 years ago (scaling as you go down).

Give them a decent amount of time to complete their Community Service (1-1.5 years). Able working illegals will have physical labor, and the elderly and less-abled females could serve food at homeless shelters or whatever. Physical laborers would have to contribute to cleaning streets, painting over graffiti, trash picking in public areas, etc (something that directly contributes to the community...not some small job for a company's backbone).

After they completed their sentence, get health exams, do all the regular processing...they win the grand prize. Those who do not complete their community service within the given time are subject to deportation.


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An idea to compensate for the overused excuse: “They take jobs that the average American wouldn't do”:

Agricultural Community Service Centers

Using the Sheriff Joe Arpaio method, create tent-like minimum security jails for appropriate inmates, surrounding large agricultural areas. These centers could be used for low risk non-violent criminals, able-working homeless, new illegals that jump our double layered barb-wire fence, etc, etc, etc, etc.

The working inmates would earn a certain amount of money, just as they do in Prisons/Jails today.
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"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."

The Solution for Illegal Immigrants (Gray areas discussed throughout the thread)