The proponents of amnesty like to present the false choice between mass deportation or a blanket amnesty. They stress the impossibility of deporting all the illegal aliens and like to use comparisons like rounding them up and placing them on trains like the Holocaust.
There is another solution and it is called attrition thru enforcement. You make it difficult for them to work here and to receive various benefits. They go home. We know it works because we have actual data from places like AZ.
When you reward something, you get more of it. We had a "one time" amnesty in 1986. The proponents said there would never be another one. The USG estimated that 1 million would apply, but the real number turned out to be 2.7 million. The process was rife with fraud. Now 29 years later we have 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. An amnesty (legalization) will cost $6.3 trillion if we have only 12 million.
