According to conservative radio host Jan Mickelson, the best way to fix the country's broken immigration system is to force undocumented workers into slave labor.

Earlier this week, the Iowa-based talk show host stated that U.S. officials should threaten undocumented residents with "compelled labor" in order to get them to self-deport. He explained that if it was up to him, he would start by issuing signs that warn undocumented people that they have up to 60 days to leave the country or else "become property of the state."

"I would just say this: 'As of this date... 30-60 days from now anyone who is in the state of Iowa that who is not here legally and who cannot demonstrate their legal status to the satisfaction of the local and state authorities here in the State of Iowa, become property of the State of Iowa,'" said Mickelson on his radio show, "WHO," on Monday, reports Mediate.  

"So if you are here without our permission, and we have given you two months to leave, and you're still here, and we find that you're still here after we we've given you the deadline to leave, then you become property of the State of Iowa," continued Mickelson. "And we start using compelled labor, the people who are here illegally would therefore be owned by the state and become an asset of the state rather than a liability and we start inventing jobs for them to do."

He then went on to explain that one of their jobs would be to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

"You will be building a wall. We will compel your labor. You would belong to these United States. You show up without an invitation, you get to be an asset," he said.

Later on, a caller challenged Mickelson, telling him that his idea "sounds an awful lot like slavery."

In response, Mickelson doubled down, asking, "Well, what's wrong with slavery?

Mickelson said, "When we allow millions of people to come into the country who aren't here legally and people who are here are indentured to those people to pay their bills, their education of their kids, pay for their food, their food stamps, their medical bills, in some cases even subsidize their housing, and somehow the people who own the country, who pay the bills, pay the taxes, they get indentured to the new people who are not even supposed to be here. Isn't that a lot like slavery?"