Would deportation of the illegal immigrants be feasible?

Answer 1

Yes it could happen -a step at a time.

Answer 2

ILLEGAL Aliens Comprise 5 Percent
Of The Workforce In The Nation
and are concentrated in lower-value service industries,
like agriculture, restaurants, cleaning services, yard work, and domestics.

While the numbers of deportations (and voluntary departures) would rise under a more vigorous immigration regime
(which I support),
this increase would happen over time.
Thus, there would not be a
massive, immediate shock to the economy,
but rather a more gradual adjustment process
as higher-wage workers
(citizens and legal immigrants)
replace lower-wage illegal aliens.
While this adjustment process
would have a greater impact
in places like New York City and California
where more illegal aliens are located,
it would hardly cause the nation’s economy to “collapse.”

That is just absurd.

There Are 20 Million ILLEGAL Aliens In The USA

There are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job,
so illegal aliens who are coming here to work
do so at peril to American workers.

Answer 3

It would work if we closed the border to STOP the influx and deported about 50,000 a month (like Ike did).

Dwight D. Eisenhower did it and it worked. Bush could do it the same way, it would just take a while to get them all deported.

From website:
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetb@¢Қ" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.

Answer 4

Of course it is. We organized and sent 20 million people out for overseas in the 1940's and the country even during war time never went bankrupt.

The cost is 250 billion dollars one time, as opposed to 450 billion a year most of which is not caught up in taxes.

In addition, it is right, just, and moral, and legal.

Bush is only playing with your perceptions.

Don't ever think for a moment millions of people have not been ejected from countries before. Scale doesn't matter.

And we will win. They will get deported even if we have to do it one at a time.

In fact historically when you start deporting some, the rest go on their own voluntarily. If they don't, more fun for us. It would create more jobs and stimulate the economy.

Do you have any idea how many people travel the country and go in and out a day?

To say it can't be done is another LIE. So is AngelaR telling us we need them more than they need us - and that's a greater LIE.

Answer 5

The question is as wrong as some of the answers. Would it be possible? Columnist George Will suggested it would take 200,000 buses stretching from San Diego to Alaska. (Where in Alaska? Ketchikan or Barrow?)

But here's why that's the wrong question: Colorado just passed one of the nation's strictest immigration measures. On the very same day, one Juan Fernandez - a worker here "without papers," as they say - lost his construction job. He told the Greeley Tribune: "If we can't do it here, and we won't be able to support ourselves with a job, I'll need to go back to Mexico."

Hmmm - self deportation? Now there's an idea. I can see George Will's 200,000 bus caravan getting shorter already.

If immigrants couldn't get jobs, how would they pay for their stay in the U.S.? If they couldn't register their cars or get driver's licenses, how would they hide amongst the population? If they couldn't rent apartments or get government-backed loans to buy homes - I am not making that up; it is really happening - where would they live? If they couldn't send their children to school or to Head Start, who would provide the free babysitting they're getting now? If someone, as an employer or landlord, could get sued for a crime committed by an illegal they were harboring, would they hire or lease to them?

Anyone who says it can't be done is either lying or ignorant. The truth is, they don't want it to be done.

Answer 6

Of course it would be feasible, and cheaper than supporting them. Look at what was done under Eisenhower.

Feasible isn't the only question for those who have been here a long time, though. Going forward, however, it would be feasible and effective. It would catch many and thereby deter most.

Answer 7

I'm not pro illegal immigration but let's do some simple math. Assuming you could find around 10 million to deport:

A bus holds a max of 50 people
A bus is about 50 ft long.

10,000,000 / 50 = 200,000 buses needed

200,000 X 50 ft = a line of buses at the border 1893 miles long (give or a take)

No, I don't think it's practical.

Answer 8

They contribute far more to this economy than they take away. Say we did deport them, who is going to replace all those low wage jobs that we don't want to do? Businesses would have to hire citizens and NO ONE will want to work for minimum wage. They will have to pay higher wages and prices on goods and services will increase.

OK say we did deport them. Not only is the cost of sending each one back astronomical, but finding them will also cost a lot of $$$. It will take time and resources to find them as well. They won't voluntarily just turn themselves in. Truth be told, our economy needs them to function. We have gotten lazy and spoiled. They do the dirty work we refuse to do....like it or not, this govt. doesnt really want them gone....

Answer 9

Most of the Israelis were illegal immigrants and look out TX and California and the rest all these states were Mexicans. That what Jewish immigrants did to the native Palestinians.

Answer 10

WHY SURE!

Think of it...it would create a whole new workforce for Americans!

Think of all those new jobs, new responsibilities.....we could even have a training academy for the position, similar to what states offer law enforcement.....

If we needed a lot of buses, the companies that manufacture buses would benefit. Then, hire certified bus drivers. Then there are the holding places to process the deportees where you can hire employees.

This is an opportunity that needs to be explored!

Oh Yeah! I think we are on to something.

Did you think I was being sarcastic? Absolutely not...this is brilliant.......

Answer 11

.The facts are in! It would be much less expensive over a five period to deport all illegals than to keep them for another five years! A little here, a little there, a lot will leave on their own when we get the ball rollin'!