[Hostage]

Well it does raise the question of how to reduce their numbers. Of course the Hitler comparisonis a stretch.

But putting them on trains? Think of the imagery. AmTrak Trains? Boxcars?

Not practical. It would take years to round up 12 million people and it would take just as long to convince their great leader Fox to take them back.

All in the meanwhile it would be grist for the mill for the Dan Rather's of the world.

A better solution would be to cut social service budgets, implement a one-strike and you're out (deported), grant and validate driver's licenses and voter id cards only to those that hold a passport or SSN, and a resolution in Congress and backed by the Supreme Court of a stricter interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

The result would be illegal farmworkers subsisting off the land and under the table pay but whose families would return home for want of an easier life. No free housing, no food stamps, no free diapers, no educational opportunities, no driver's license and no power from illegal voting.

Then the numbers would start to drop.

America would become again a great place for legal immigrants but a bad place for illegal border crossers.

[riri]

I didn't make the original post. But I agree, with the premise. We could boot tens of thousands out a year and set an example. We could make it extremely painful for them to be here via the examples you cited. I agree with everything in your post.

Anyone who thinks the only option we have is this--is just delusional. Drunk on the kool aid.