The magnet theory is simple. If you let illegal aliens stay in this country, more will want to come. Yet many well meaning people want to overlook it for various reasons.
They say, if they behave themselves, if they pay taxes and fines, etc. etc…, then let them stay. This overlooks the magnet theory. If you let them stay in any way shape or form, then more will come.
I have my own theory. If you seal the borders, if you send all illegal aliens home, if you record fingerprints and DNA immediately, and if you pass a law that anyone caught living here illegally, they will never, never, ever be allowed citizenship here. The DNA will help enforce this.
Incidentally, it would also stop them from trying to claim unrelated children as kin. It is a process used to “import” child and slave labor.
If these things are done, instantly, those illegally entering this country would drop off to virtually nothing.
In the end, it is more humane. They would not be risking life, limb and rape to get here. It would stop the slave labor. It would drastically reduce the drug and slave trade.
As long as we permit the magnet to remain, dangers of the cartels will persist, south and north of the border, to aliens and American citizens alike. (perhaps, even more for the Americans)