If America can't deport 12 million illegal aliens . . .?

Question

then how many armed soldiers would it take to conquer it?

Half that? A third? One-tenth? After all, we're talking trained and armed soldiers.

Or maybe when people say "we can't" they mean "we lack the will?"

So, which is it?

So far, everyone (on both sides of the issue) seems to be validiting my point - that we are capable of doing it, but just lack the desire to all work together to do so.

Answer 1

Of course it's possible to deport 12 million Mexicans

After all, Mexico did

Answer 2

First, bottle, get your facts straight. What they make goes back "home" to Mexico. Take a look at the stats

http://www.immigrationcounters.com/

We can, but it takes the government to do it. You and I cannot go send these people back. Do I think we should used armed force? Sure, but we need to tighten the borders first. I know personally of a sweep, at a factory. The one that took the longest to return to town was 3 days, the rest were back mostly in 24 hours. So, we have to make a border they can't get back past, or they just slip right back in. So, we can, as a country, do it. If that was Bin Laden on the other side, I am sure it would be done. Anyone stop to think that the easiest way in this country for a terrorist is just to our south?

Answer 3

Two part semi-answer.

First, President Hoover deported 2 million illegal immigrants and President Eisenhower deported more than a million so we *could* deport many.

Second, even 1% might be way too high if we don't have the will. Just think how much fear was created and how much work wasn't done when *TWO* snipers terrorized DC and Virginia.

BTW, why did the media dig up and report their English names (Malvo and Williams) as opposed to their adopted Muslim names which they had both used for years??

Answer 4

Why not let them deport themselves? I found a few suggestions that would put the pressure where it should be, on the illegal alien. Some suggestions I'm not crazy about. Most I totally agree w/& am a little shocked that they weren't being done already.

1) Implement a mandatory electronic worker verification system.

2) Make the social security card a verifiable ID & require the S.S.A. to inform Homeland Security when no match letters are issued.

3) Authorize the IRS to prosecute employers & illegal workers who provide fraudulant tax information.

4) Eliminate business tax deductions for wages employers pay to illegal aliens.

5) Increase civil & crimminal penalties for employers convicted of hiring illegal aliens.

6) Bar work performed illegally from counting towards eligibility for Social Security benefits.

7) Increase the manpower & technology for securing US borders & ports.

8) Expand local federal immigration law enforcement cooperation.

9) Eliminate birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.

10) Eliminate non emergency state & local benefits & services for illegal aliens.

Congress needs to wake up. "We the pople" need to wake them up. If everyone who writes on this site would then write to their congress critter, congress would HAVE to listen.

1 last thing, this is being touted as a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill. I went to Webster's Dictionary. "Comprehensive"- 1) covering completely or broadly. 2) having or exibiting a wide mental grasp. Now, I don't think you could acuse too many congress critters of "having or exhibiting a wide mental grasp" on just about anything.

Answer 5

It is a supply and demand issue, as long as corporate America demands there will be a never ending supply. Come down on the employers like a ton of bricks and no government assistance to anyone who is not a legal citizen, this includes education, medical services (except for emergencies), welfare, interpreter service, transportation, etc. soon the illegal immigrants would remove themselves.

The first answer is correct. All done without arming any soldiers.

Answer 6

Yes it is possible. But the government is not permitting enforcement of our laws. Law enforcement and health care officials are not even allowed to inquire about a person's legal status. Police and border patrol agents are jailed for trying to do their jobs. Towns and cities are sued for enforcing laws (discrimination). It still can be done. When enough people get tired of laws only applying to citizens.

Answer 7

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 8

It means that they lack the will or the incentive to do so. Everyone is making out big except the American Citizens.

Answer 9

Perhaps we lack the will because some of our leaders realize how a vast majority of Americans are direct descendants of this nation's first 'illegal immigrants' who started arriving on these shores 400 years ago this month.
As they settled, they disregarded the native American Indians who were the first and only 'natural' residents of this great land. We massacred the Indians, took away their lands - which they considered sacred and part of the common good - and eventually stored them away on reservations (out of sight, out of mind).
Then, as these "white" European "illegal immigrants" moved westward, they slaughtered millions of buffalo, just for the sheer 'sport' of it (an animal Indians only killed to be used for food, clothing and shelter). And, as years went by, the first "illegal immigrants" did other dastardly things, such as jail Japanese-Americans at the beginning of World War II. And, today's contemporary descendants of America's first 'illegal immigrants" feel no remorse in squandering all of this nation's precious natural resources; refusing to REduce, REuse, or REcycle; drive around in gas-guzzling $60,000 SUVs just "because we can"; and give no credence or consideration to the delicate ecological balance between man, plants and animals that is so necessary for our survival on this Earth.
I wonder what OUR descendants will say when they realize that we squandered their future...and KNEW we we doing it?? I'll bet they'll wish the first "illegal immigrants" would have ever soiled these shores! -RKO- 05/22/07

Answer 10

Oh get over yourself. Where would you find these people? They have NO DOCUMENTS. How do you know where they live? Just accost anyone who looks 'different'?
Wouldn't you rather spend the effort in trying to find bin laden and other terrorists than going after chamber maids, janitors, lawn workers and farmers? We need to stop being so vindictive...