Should we really deport all 12 million illegal aliens?

Question

Some people think we should deport all illegal aliens. But this would require us to detect, detain and deport 12 million people. In order to detect illegals, we need a massive investigative force of immigration enforcement officers, much more than we have now. Then they have to go arrest them and find space in jails that are already overcrowded. We'd have to build new jails and hire hundreds, possibly thousands, of detention officers. In order to deport someone, each individual must go through deportation proceedings. Under the current system, there may be many appeals and petitions for visas. This will require legal resources beyond what we have now. The actual deportation would involve taking the illegal aliens to their home country, not just to Mexico. The physical process of escorting and transporting 12 million people outside the country is quite an undertaking.

So my question is...am I wrong around this? Is there something I am missing? Does it make sense?

Answer 1

It is almost impossible. My take is that I don't think our system for aliens works, period. But this country is built on imigrants and I think we just need to understand that we need them, even if we don't like it. They allow the things we eat and buy to be cheaper, than if we didn't have them. I respect the fact that many, many people don't like that we have added Spanish ballots, etc. to everything. I understand that it isn't fair that they get to own businesses and get what legal Americans can't. But, we have to start figuring out how to change the way the laws are written and to make it hard for those who come here and stay illegal to not benefit from our government. I have sent letters to my Congressman and will continue to do so. It is your right as an American to send your complaint and possible solutions to the government. The people can't just sit and complain about it, we have to be part of the solution and take action in our government. It starts with each one of us.
To all, get involved. It is how it works!

Answer 2

The best way to get rid of the illegal aliens is by attrition. Cut them off from everything except emergency medical assistance and end birthright citizenship. We don't need new laws if they are just going to be ignored. Its already ILLEGAL for a company to hire an illegal alien. Its already ILLEGAL to come into this country without permission. We need some ENFORCEMENT. Our economy would be fine if we got rid of these people. Besides if we legalize these folks we would have to pay them them same as everyone else. A temporary guest worker program is already in place for high skilled workers. We don't won't to bring in low skill, uneducated workers to take the jobs that many of our own are limited to. Before we even cosidered a program like that we need to make sure we have the ability to track this people and force them to leave when their visa expires. After all its called a, TEMPORARY guest worker program. Many of the 9/11 hijackers were here on expired visas. If ICE were doing their job they would have been deported especially Muhammad Atta. He was pulled over for speeding prior to 9/11 and at that time had an expired visa. You can Google that one.

Answer 3

Our country has let the American people down by allowing this to go on for so long and reach this epidemic state. With that said and for the sake of this nation and the future of it's people, we must do something. It will need to be a multi-pronged approach. Fine and inprison employers that hire illegal aliens from any country, remove all social services and begin the long and expensive task of search and deportation. Mexico already does that and more with illegals flooding in from central and south America and their not nearly as nice about it as America is, so why is it OK for Mexico but not the USA?

Answer 4

The nation would only be in deper national dept, if they tried to deport all illegals! Then, if they got them all out, the nation would more than likely culapse, not just because of dept., but because there would be way more jobs, than poeple. I highly dought that 12 million americans are looking for a hard labor job. Even if the pay increases, so would the cost of produce. It's just the work of the "invisable hand" Can you imagine an America were you would have to pay $20 for a McGridle?! Sure, people would probably weigh less, but what would happen to the rest of the environment?

Answer 5

Here are a few questions you will need to answer before your grand plan is implemented: 1) How will you locate and identify all of the alleged illegals? 2) Once you have located and identified them all...the law states they have to be processed and proven to be illegals which also means hearings and appeals. 3) Once they are confirmed illegals and their deportations are ordered....who is going to pay to send them all where ever you say they need to go? 4) BEFORE they can be sent the country they are being sent to must agree to accept them. Considering most will not have travel documents or identified proof of where they should go (hence the need for all the appeals) the receiving country must agree to issue the proper documents for travel and agree to allow them in. The law states that airlines are not even allowed to accept them as passengers unless they have tickets, documentation and papers allowing them to enter their country of destination otherwise the airlines will be fined thousands of dollars. So, now that you have heard all of that (and other issues I didn't even bother to bring up right now)....do you feel any better for having vented on the subject? Thats about all the good your statement/question did because the issue is not as cut and dried as you would want it to be.

Answer 6

Your stuck on one view. Consider that most if not all come here to work for higher wages than they get in their own country. Let's assume for a minute that every employer was fined 25,000 per alien per infraction. That would deflate the job prospects of illegal immigrants. Now if your here and can't get a job you can either leave or work at jobs that don't pay as much as your own country.
Couple that with changes in the law to prevent the reception of welfare monies and you have a mass exodus of illegals back to their respective points of origin. the ones left can be rounded up over the next several years.

Answer 7

There is no way anyone could possibly deport 12 million illegals. it is financially NOT a good idea to have tax payers buying this round-trip ticket for them. What the government should do is crack down on the businesses that hire them! They are here for one reason only and it is to work. If there is not any employers willing to hire this new breed of slave labor, then they will have to go away at their own expense! And the government needs to quit giving social assistance to the illegals as well!

Answer 8

Good question. Should our Government turn their back on our laws? A law is a law. illegal is illegal. I don't see the conflict. If the Gov. disreguards this law then why should we abide by any other law?
Not in all cases, but more than not, there is a reason why the pursuit of citizenship has not been acted on. This alone raises more questions.
My opinion: Get Legal or Go Home. This is the law, huh?

Answer 9

Give the illegal aliens a chance to earn there place in the "The land of the free". When you catch em, just send them to Iraq or other countries where America is fighting. Give them a 2 year probation period to fight for America and if the survive then let them stay and if they die....oh well, they were never meant to come to America in the first place. Hope that solves some of the illegal alien issues as a deterant to people.

Answer 10

You are 100% right on this issue of 'deportation',
However many people honestly and truly beleive it is possible to deport 12million plus people just like that. This I beleive is due to a number of reasons, some just have conflicting political phillosiphies that don't corrilate with logical reason, for example- some ones phillosiphy may be to eliminate poverty in the U.S,, their intentions are very noble and positive but the logic of it's accomplishment is irrational. In order for a capatalistic democracy to thrive their will be those on the poverty line- it's just the law of capatalisim. On the same level many good American folks beleive Illegal immigration is a huge problem, and the only solution is to deport 12million plus people out of the country. This is indeeed despite the fact that it doesn't corrilate with reasonable logic, Im not saying it's impossible, because the next nut might come to power and have mass raids, detain millions and deport at least damn near an expensive 10million people. But the after math will be huge monetary expenses that will drain the economy, prices of meat, fruit, vegtables restaraunts, housing, rent, e.t.c all will rise. Not to mention the loss of American job's due to the inabilty to aquire cheap labor(exmp. Construction job's are 20-30hr jobs, some companys can stay in buisness and keep reasonable prices by labor cost of immigrant who do the same job for 7-10hr oh... and not to mention the psycological effect this would play onto American born childern whom parents are immigrants, what do you do with them? Think about it..What crime did they commit? what, they choseto be born? All im saying is it's okay to be allied with a political party that best represents you, but sometimes it's phillosophy or agenda is not logical so we must think for ourselves what is rational.