Thompson camp code for "people who believe in enforcing the law". Your selective enforcement idea leads to zero enforcement. How do you form two lines, "best and hardest workers" and who goes to the other line, "worst and laziest workers"? What if the husband is a good worker and the wife is a lazy worker, send her back and keep the husband? Who gets to pick which line they get in, you? If illegal employers want to keep their illegal employees they can say "he's a good worker" and then he gets to stay? The scofflaw employers will take that deal.
Let Mexico have some good workers too so that they can improve their country.
Sheesh...
You did not even read anything I wrote.
Enforcement is part one of the solution, but anyone with common sense knows damn well that will not get all of them, more than likely less then half.
You been to Mexico lately, not a booming job market and one hell of a place to be poor. So you are going to end up with a bunch of these folks finding ways to hide here and many willing to help.
So we just go after them and those who help them right?
Good idea, how you plan on doing it. Look at our major cities alone. The police forces are already over burdened. ICE has a small over worked staff, FBI is stretched already. We hire more, but from where, our unemployment is at record lows and if there were hundreds of folks that were looking for a job like that these departments would not have empty slots to fill right now. I don’t see a lot of 60K a year bankers or IT folks dying to switch to 45k a year ICE jobs.
Housing them? Courts where the legal challenges occur? Transport?
So the solution is two fold IF this is the path. One, an overwhelming effort at incredible expense to staff and built the logistical systems. Well I addressed the shortage of man power, but we could build some really cool buildings and buy a bunch of buses.
Or second, we go slow, take 20 years to get them all.
The American public was already tired of Iraq in general months ago, and that was in pursuit of people hell bent on killing us. You think it would last any longer going after folks who want to serve us homemade tacos and bag our groceries.
After a few short months of endless stories of pursuits, the costs, and all the legal challenges, I can guarantee you that they will scream enough, and we end up with a bunch still here (many we did want in any way), weaken resolve on the fence and dont;’ get me started on the fact while all thins is going on even more will come through taking the chance.
So do we sit here and demand all or nothing, and loose our place at the table or take a chance and take the high road.
Yes we decide who stays here exactly as you said, you work, you can pay the fine and have a job that is of value you are in. If it is just the father, so be it, at least the family will have income. The rest of you Buh Bye...
There is the way things are and the way things ought to be. I wish we had control over things, but if we, as Conservatives, did, there would be no illegal issue, no welfare, smaller government, no abortion and things would have been much different than they are now.
Last I looked, that ain’t the way it is.
So unless you can GAURANTEE me 3/4 of both houses, a conservative Supreme court in the next few months and the White house, and GAURANTEE it for the duration of shipping them all out, then I think it would behoove us to come up with quick solution that bypasses the obstacles and gets this out of the public eye as quick as possible. If we can get an advantage even better.