Essentially, if the US cuts off the freebies (walk-in healthcare at your local emergency room, food stamps, etc.) and prosecute employers for hiring criminal entrants illegally (that is, no more jobs for illegals that pay under-the-table so that they have to contribute some of their earnings to all those freebies), they will leave their country because there is no financial incentive to stay here.
Kinda what has been happening in Alabama. Except they are probably self-deporting to another illegal immigrant friendly state. Unemployment has dropped almost 2 percentage points since and many have left our schools . . . hopefully many more aren’t showing up in the emergency rooms, pregnant & in labor, to further suck up our resources.
It’s the opposite of self-importation.
Self-deportation is a flight of fantasy on the part of some.
However, we should remember that the actual amnesty legislation being considered during GWB’s administration included some delusional provisions for illegals to show up and self-identify.
It’s a pretty mainstream conservative position. Instead of creating some kind of police state to round up millions of illegals, we give them a reason to leave on their own. Don’t give them welfare, don’t allow anyone to hire them and don’t have any sanctuary cities and the problem should eventually resolve itself via attrition.
I’ll use it in a sentence for you.
Romney is self deporting from the Presidential race.
Illegals come here in response to various incentives - jobs, free medical, free education, citizenship for their children among others. If these incentives were removed they would stop coming and many would leave. That, by itself, would be a huge improvement but not enough. The criminal element would need to be dealt with more directly.
There have been threads right here on FR talking about illegals leaving states just in anticipation of employment laws being enforced.
Enforce employment laws and remove them from the public money nipple and they will go home.
I don’t like it but its at least a partially honest answer.
Operation Wetback didn’t deport nearly as many as those who left on their own and that kind of encouragement is needed.
Frankly I’m disgusted that we’ve winnowed the field down to where Mitt Romney has the strongest immigration stance with a whopping D- grade from numbers USA.
It wouldn't take a week before you would e looking to get out of this country. Nobody has to arrest you, or detain you, or even have contact with you from the INS. You would be hungry and homeless very quickly.
Today it's almost a badge of honor to not ask for documentation to get any benefits. I had to have ID for almost everything I had to do. During the housing bubble, a friend of mine was moving from Dallas area to Houston area and was selling his house. He got a call from the realtor saying they had an offer on his house. Everything was going fine for a WEEK OR TWO while my friend was getting ready to move out of his house. Then he gets a call saying there was a problem with the buyer. The Social Security number didn't match on the home loan. The mortgage company asked the buyer for ANOTHER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER! They said they NEEDED A SS # that WORKS! Can you imagine? They new the guy was an illegal but were trying to get the loan anyway. What if he came back with your SS#? H4e eventually ran to Mexico after giving them 2 more bogus numbers.
I just refinanced my home and had a proctologist approval for my loan. How does a person get in for weeks before there is a problem? How does his children go to school without a BC? My daughter had to have one, I and my wife both had to have one. Now we can't even ask for one for president.
However, given the lackadaisical manner of the current administration regarding illegal aliens, the posse doesn't have any horses or guns and is too busy at the "Obama Drama" combo bar and cat house.
Did that help?
So long as American employers have an economic incentive to hire illegal labor - it will be as if an “invisible hand” provides them.
All the effort on the border, or in deporting (catch and release) is idiotic - it will not stem the flow.
When you cut off the jobs that they came here for - they will go home.
Most illegals come here to work and repatriate money back home - without the work they have no money so they have to go home.
That is “self-deportation” and it is much better.
People say “there is no way we are going to deport X million people” and I point out that they didn’t need a government program or bus to GET HERE and they won’t need one to leave.
All they need to be encouraged to leave is to be denied what they came here for. Jobs.
People sometimes say “how can we deport 20 million people?”. Well, they got here somehow, didn’t they? And they probably have more money now than when they showed up...
So, the answer is:
1. Make it extremely difficult for someone to work illegally in the US.
2. Cut off any social services for non-citizens.
3. The illegals will go back to the countries where they legally reside.
You know those millions of Mexicans, for example, who are here illegally? Well, they used to live in Mexico. Then they self-deported.