What would deporting 11 million people look like?

The Orange County Register ^ | November 14, 2015 | Franco Odonez

[2ndDivisionVet]

WASHINGTON – Conservative presidential candidates speak casually of deporting 11 million people, but what they don’t say is what it would cost, what it would take and the long odds of success.

Some researchers who have considered such a possibility envision the expansion of federal fugitive operations teams that would fan out through rural areas arresting immigrant workers picking strawberries. Poultry plants would be raided and teachers and doctors could be tasked with reporting those who seek services. The costs: as high as $300 billion....

[Noumenon]

A good start.

[CodeToad]

Maybe it would look like teenagers getting their first jobs back. Maybe “minimum wage” might be a wage they can be paid again instead of a living wage for illegal aliens.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It would look like the rule of immigration law is actually enforced.

[Lurkinanloomin]

About a third of the job.....

[ransacked]

What would it look like? Heaven. Absolute heaven!

[mkmensinger]

Mexico did it.

[stocksthatgoup]

Helluva lot better than Paris!

[Norm Lenhart]

Can’t top that. Not gonna try.

[Chgogal]

I thought California has no water? How can there be a harvest if there is no water?

[mkjessup]

It would look like this, times 10 (or 100):

[SamAdams76]

Cut off welfare and all other government handouts. They will make themselves scarce really quick and will lessen the influx of others trying to get in.

[immadashell]

The end of the first half.

[Jane Austen]

Agreed, a very good start. Less crime, less terror threats, more tax money for serious problems.

[Chickensoup]

when people ask me about the Mexican illegal aliens, I just say that I am uncomfortable with being complicit with the Mexican ethnic cleansing by elite and wealthy Mexicans against their indigenous population. That certainly changes the conversation.

[sparklite2]

What it SHOULD look like is this ...

Dear Mr Sanchez,

You are in the US illegally. We are coming to arrest and deport you at which point you will never be allowed to enter the US again.

However, if you take it upon yourself to return to Mexico in the next seven days, you will be allowed to apply for re-entry from outside the US under normal rules of immigration.

Your choice,

Homeland Security.

[DoughtyOne]

It would look like 1/3rd to 1/4th the way there...

[rockrr]

Conservative presidential candidates speak casually of deporting 11 million people, but what they don't say is what it would cost, what it would take and the long odds of success.

"If we can deport the life of just one illegal then it's worth every penny"

LOL

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

A good start towards deporting the 40 million - 50 million who are actually here.

[butlerweave]

turn off their free stuff