[moehoward]

Never happen, and we all know it. Imagine being the president responsible for ordering the National Guard to go around rounding up women and children at gunpoint and sticking them in camps for processing and deportation. How would that play on TV? Other than fringe right-wingers, there would be very few people in this country who would support such a move.

Never say never. And we have done it before. Making the now optional employee verification system mandatory and eliminating all non-emergency benefits to Illegals would send many home on their own. Any trouble makers that engage in civil unrest will certainly firm up our resolve to deport the stragglers.

[Modernman]

Making the now optional employee verification system mandatory and eliminating all non-emergency benefits to Illegals would send many home on their own

I'm certainly in favor of making illegals' lives more difficult- if you enforce current laws and make it tough for them to get a job, collect benefits, receive health care, go to school etc., you'll increase the natural attrition rate of illegals going back to their home countries.

But a round-up like we had in WWII of Japanese-Americans? I can't see Americans having the stomach for that, and rightfully so.