I have been reading alot about illegal immigration raids across the country?

Question

Is the govt quietly deporting people? Are they now realizing they must do something about this? Will they give illegals amnesty?

Answer 1

I think the government is finally feeling heat from the anger in America. More raids are a good thing! It's a start.

I highly doubt they will grant blanket amnesty because they are afraid of loosing their jobs. Many ran on border security issue and their voters will be ready to fire them if they vote for amnesty. Personally I wish they would vote against it because it's wrong, not out of self preservation.

Answer 2

Hate to tell you this, but it's smoke and mirrors.

There are somewhere around 40-50 million illegal aliens in the United States. By the end of today several thousand more will have snuck into in.

Even if the feds deported 2 million of these people by next Friday it still wouldn't make much of a dent in the problem.

Deporting a hunrdred people here and there is nothing. Most of them turn around and cross right back in to the US.

Answer 3

What's happening is the Bush admin is trying to get people to believe that they are doing what they should've been doing a long time ago (deporting these people) to please people so they can say, "Look, we are enforcing immigration laws, let's get this guest worker program in there and bring all of the illegals out of the shadows." Many Americans see this happening and still aren't gonna give in to their nonsense though.

Answer 4

More come in every day than are deported every month, and they are still ignoring 'low hanging fruit' like Elvira Arellano.

So I don't think it is a very serious crack down. I think Bush wants to make it look like after 6 years of non-enforcement we now can 'trust him to enforce'. He wants the amnesty guest worker bill and knows that it could blow up in his face.