[Jim Noble]

Just asking! How would you go about deporting the 11 million illegals??

I would build large detention camps in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, use the National Guard to round them up, seize a secured rail corridor into Mexico, and run trains 24/7 until they were all gone.

But that's just me.

Employer sanctions will work, also - so let's do that.

[Coldwater Creek]

Now that is a suggestion that just might work.

House them in tents and feed them green baloney!

[dvan]

"seize a secured rail corridor into Mexico, and run trains 24/7 until they were all gone.'

Our 'friends to the South' would just block the rail entry with troops. Do you think they would want these people causing trouble over there?

[lemura]

If we were to cut-off illegal immigration, deport or otherwise encourage current illegal aliens to leave via employer sanctions, social service reductions, etc., it would have at least one immediate and catastrophic result: a marxist revolution taking place in Mexico.

For those that say, fine, let them go at it, consider this: the refugee flood would dwarf the current flow of illegals. No, as has been postulated by different posters, Bush is playing a much larger-scale geo-strategic game.

With an expanded WoT against a nuclear Iran, we can't afford to have any problems on our southern border. So he's betting the long-term composition of our national culture/society against the very-real short-term threat of a nuclear attack.

Why he doesn't just come out and say this openly is beyond me. He might garner a little more support...