Ineffectual because they can and do just sneak right back in.

That's a different problem entirely.

I as referring to asylum.

Our present system is geared towards people sneaking across, being deported, and sneaking again. It's almost a game. I remember border patrol agents actually recognizing some migrants because there were "regulars", so to speak. Typically working the fields for the season, going home, and returning the next season.

The wave of people the last several years has been asylum seekers (a large percentage of the wave is), fleeing broken governments and gang violence. As albaby said, those folks are here legally if they turn themselves in for an asylum request. Those people get their court date. Once rejected, I don't know if they can reapply...assuming they can even make it back here a second time.

Border security, alas, will never be as tight as you imagine it could be. We could dig a moat, fill it with gators, and they'll still come. A gator-filled moat is better than wait awaits them wherever they came from.

And, let's not lose sight of the fact that -last I knew- the number one category of illegal immigration is people who overstay legal visas.

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