[OldFriend]

So you think we can round up two million people and deport them. Care to tell me how we would actually accomplish this.......Police raids, lawyers to be sure the folks rounded up are illegal, detention centers, transportation to another country.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I believe we can incrementally start on 250,000-300,000 in target states, and we can also start in earnest on the state level with blanket denial of social services, drivers licenses, SSN cards, non-recognition of matricula consulada tarjetas, etc. It will be a long, hard battle.

I am in it for the long run.

So, excuse me, but with your naysaying, do nothing skepticism, you can kindly LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. Thanks! :-)

[Bolivar]

So you think we can round up two million people and deport them.

Yes, it's been done before. Eisenhower did it in the 1950's Maybe we could designate illegals as potential terrorists and use the Patriot Act?

[B Knotts]

It's a matter of turning up the heat. Once you do so, many, if not most, will leave voluntarily.

Here is a simple six-step plan for significantly improving the situation:

1. Put additional agents on the border, possibly initially assisted by National Guard
2. Fence additional areas of the border
3. Begin an agressive policy of prosecuting scofflaw employers (start with landscaping and cleaning companies)
4. Require local law enforcement to cooperate with DHS and turn over illegals that they encounter
5. Forbid illegals from obtaining benefits at the federal and state levels (pass legislation overturning Plyler v. Doe, if possible)
6. Create a bracero-type program, but require applicants to apply at a U.S. Embassy in their home country

I think this is doable, but I suspect it won't be done because Congress, the President, Karl Rove, and the "business community" don't want it to be done.

It's a shameful situation, and the implication that Latinos favor illegal immigration, and therefore one can pander in this way for their votes is insulting, to say the least.

[yonif]

So you think we can round up two million people and deport them. Care to tell me how we would actually accomplish this.......Police raids, lawyers to be sure the folks rounded up are illegal, detention centers, transportation to another country.

Do you think the US can bring to justice every terrorist of the world? No. The US will never stop all terrorism, but it doesn't mean it leaves principle and lets it flourish.