[the invisib1e hand]

if you think you're gonna cart 'em all back, you really need to wake up.

[taxed2death]

...if you think that's the attrition method you really need to wake up.

[dforest]

Quit giving them jobs and taxpayer handouts and a lot of them will go home. Crackdown on employers, you know the people that save money at others expense. I know all the arguments pro and con. People come down on the side they choose which they think will benefit them the most.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Carting them all back isn't necessary. If you enact the right policies, they'll leave on their own. Branson, Mo and Hazelton, Pa is proving that. For the illegals: you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

[Aetius]

Well, it seems you've bought into the bogus idea (put forth so assiduously by the Left, Democrats, Media, and WSJ-wing of the Republican party) that the only alternative to granting citizenship to illegals is to grant them a path to citizenship. We wouldn't have to 'cart em all back', as the attrittion/enforcement first strategy would result in a large amount of self-deportation. While deportation should not be taken off the table for any illegals, it could be focused more on criminal illegals.

So attack the enforcement first approach if you want, but don't pretend as though its not an option.