[Pan_Yans Wife]

Whether or not we could deport all illegals is questionable.

Everyone wants to attack Bush for his proposal, and yet I have not seen a proposal from the dissenting side explaining how the above will be done.

[Aetius]

Pans: I don't know how to go about it. My main point about the feasibility of deporting all or just most illegals is that we always hear that it 'can't be done'; that its 'impossible'; yet we haven't even tried. How do we know it can't be done? Eisenhower was able to successfully remove about one million illegals during the 1950s, so large-scale deportation is possible. The truth is that there is no political will to even try. That doesn't mean its impossible if the will existed.

FITZ: You are right that there were problems with the last great wave, but I would argue that institutionalized welfare, multiculturalism, and racial preferences pose a greater challenge today.

And again, that last wave was halted by Congress. I ask the question again; does anyone doubt that played an important part in the successful assimilation of all the Irish, Italians, Germans, etc..?