The reason deportations are not occurring has nothing to do with the cost, which-as I've already explained-is negligible compared to a policy of open borders in perpetuity.
Rector lost all his credibility long ago. Plus, Rector, in his job at Heritage, is required to make competing and contradicting arguments.
Sometimes he has to write a paper in which he makes the case against illegals. At other times he has to make the argument against illegals becoming guest workers and sometimes against illegals being put onto the path.
When he does this he has to contradict himself.
Like I said, you can use them as your authority to justify your position, but don't try to use them beyond that.
Once again, it comes back to cost. But you, or Rector, or Heritage, or FAIR, or anybody else are never able(or willing) to actually furnish a cost of how much would have to be spent for border enforcement, interior enforcement, and workplace enforcement. How many more border patrol agents, ICE agents, or auditors do you need?
Nor have you ever been able explain how removing these 30 or 11 million producers and consumers from the economy would affect GDP. What happens when you remove 10% of the labor force in TX, CA, and NV? What happens to the real estate industry or auto industry? The peach pickin industry? The tortilla industry?
This is why you will never win your argument where it matters(congress). Sure, you enjoy hanging around the chat rooms, but reality is not determined by what happens in a chat room.