New guidance telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to focus on apprehending terrorists and criminals has many of ICE's rank-and-file agents wondering who then is responsible for tracking down and detaining the millions of other illegal border-crossers and fugitive aliens now in the country.

The new guidelines are outlined in a June 29 memo from Assistant Secretary John Morton, who heads the agency, to all ICE employees regarding the apprehension, detention and removal of illegal immigrants, noting that the agency "only has resources to remove approximately 400,000 aliens per year, less than 4 percent of the estimated illegal-alien population in the United States."

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Okay, so that's the problem. What to do? What to do?

Well, many localities, states, regions, even whole countries that are troubled by invasive species that are adversely affecting habitat or interfering with native species or becoming pests in some way, institute an eradication program and offer a cash bounty for the invaders.

There should be a large pool of potential bounty hunters available in the U.S. They can be recruited from the ranks of the unemployed right-wing, conservative, veteran, suspected terrorists. They can be assumed to be excellent marksmen, since they have recently been killing innocent followers of the religion of peace. They should be willing to work for cheap bounties to get money for their beer and drugs.

We don't want them driving all over with the dead carcasses ripening in the back of their pick-up trucks, so we should ask them to discreetly remove and turn in a pair of ears for each bounty to be collected.

The bounty amount could be set at some trivial amount, say $1,000. This compares very favorably with the savings in medical, educational and social welfare costs that each illegal represents.