[E. Pluribus Unum]

Conservatives forget that Ronald Reagan was responsible for the first alien amnesty.

I dare the xenophobes-in-conservative-clothing to say the same things about Reagan that they are saying about Bush.

There are 18 million illegal aliens currently residing in this country.

If you could click your heels together and magically transport them all back to Kansas, I would be all for it.

But it wouldn't be like that.

It would be messier than you could ever imagine.

Rounding them up into camps and transporting them back to Mexico would be the biggest, most violent military operation conducted within American borders since the Civil War.

America would go from being the world's foremost champion of human rights to the biggest violator, because the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things, and that is what will happen.

The borders will be lined with cameras from news stations all over the world, photographing shrieking families as legal children watch their illegal parents forcibly dragged across the border.

That will be the new face of America that the world sees when they think of us.

[Federalist 78]

America would go from being the world's foremost champion of human rights to the biggest violator, because the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things, and that is what will happen.

Beyond International - Abortion Counter

[navyblue]

Rounding them up into camps and transporting them back to Mexico would be the biggest, most violent military operation conducted within American borders since the Civil War. America would go from being the world's foremost champion of human rights to the biggest violator, because the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things, and that is what will happen.

ONE MORE TIME! IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO USE THE MILITARY TO "ROUND UP" ALL THESE ILLEGALS!

Remove the incentives such as jobs and social benefits and they will leave of their own accord!

[livius]

Thanks for a little rationality about the "round 'em all up and ship 'em back" raving.

BTW, I have been wondering if some of the people who have been posting the more extreme stuff about this are perhaps instigators from DU or some similar extreme liberal bunch. I recognize some of the names of FR posters about this as being long-time xenophobes that I have seen before, but some of the wilder and woollier ones seem to be fairly new.

Dems are getting a big kick out of this, because they like to portray conservatives as racists, xenophobes, kill-em-all types, and some of these posters (if they're serious posters and not DU plants) are giving them plenty of ammunition.