At present there are some 12-14 million illegal aliens in the country. By and large most are good people who obey the laws and just want to improve their lives. So are bad. The vast majority good. They are people. No more or less.

So what. They are here illegally. That's the very first thing you need to understand. They have absolutely no right to be here.  Whether they commit zero or a million crimes is of no consequence. Plainer. If they were not here, they would commit no crimes here.

Their presence does several things that harm US citizens. Their presence in the low end of the labor market depresses the price paid for that labor, whether it is busing tables, roofing homes, cleaning yards or picking tomatoes. If they weren't here, the price paid would rise and the jobs would be filled by US citizens, or technological advances would be encouraged to replace them.

This would bring more money into the lower income levels of our country and produce all of the benefits that increasing the money supply brings.

It would also increase the prices paid by the consumer. But a cost increase does not translate into linear price increases. But again, so what? Why would anyone think they are entitled to cheap anything? You mention Walmart. I do not think that Walmart knowingly hires illegal aliens. You mention their contractors. Yes, they have, and they may. But, if illegal aleins were not here, they would not be hired.

Plus, prices increases have a way of working their way through the economy. I have always felt that loose money and a modest inflation is very acceptable. What it means is that people borrow money long term and pay it back using discounted dollars. That's a very good thing. For a graphic example of what happens when the money supply tightens, look at the just over (I hope.) mini-panic in the stock market and home loans.

The additional problems this huge influx of people causes is easy to understand. When a family of illegal aliens with four children arrive in a town, an immediate burden of approximately $18,000 per year is placed on the tax payer for education costs. ($4,500 per child) And that family, even with both parents working, and even if they pay all taxes, can not cover the cost. In addition we have the stress put on hospital emergency rooms as de facto medical clinics. Multiply those costs by millions of illegal aliens and you can start to see the cost.

Another hidden cost is the slowing of technological advancements. Tight labor markets always cause innovations.

Do you remember the pictures of fields in the south filled with poor whites and blacks pulling cotton sacks picking cotton by hand?? They were replaced by cotton picking machines. Why? Because the post WWII economic boom brought jobs, unionized jobs that paid well, and millions of poor people moved off the farm and into the lower middle class with their children becoming doctors, lawyers and other high income occupations.

The loss of cheap labor forced the farmers to buy equipment developed because a market for the cotton picking machine had been made.

As to a "solutions" to the existing problem, you start by closing the borders. Period. That does two things.

1.    It forces other countries to solve their own problems. Mexicans and others are leaving their families and homes because they see no future. These countries have a surplus of people because of their failed system. i.e. When society provides no safety net, the poor have always favored large families. In addition, the religion in the countries providing the majority of the illegal aliens highly discourage birth control.

2.    It gives us time to develop a rational plan on what to do with the illegal aliens who are here. Amnesty is not an acceptable answer because the American people do no believe that the border will be securded.

The reason it is that way is because American workers will not do the job.  I know that in California because we have tried over the years to get American workers to do these jobs.

The reason is that the wages are too low. Plus innovation has been almost stopped.

letting any and all who enter to remain

Its not in this post and its not in that article.

I gave you a direct quote from this post and her article

There is nothing wrong with having a debate about immigration. But it is deplorable to falsely stereotype and malign millions of law-abiding people because of one's desire for a particular outcome in that debate.

How do you reconcile her actual words with those you wish to put in her mouth?