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Please think about what it would take to round up and deport 8 to 12 million people - men, women and children.

First off we don't have to round them up. A few changes in our laws and they will leave on their own. Very little cost wise.

Anyway, Bush spends more on social welfare programs then it would cost to deport 10 million+ illegals.

Their job is not to get reelected, it's to support and defend the Constitution and the American people.

My point was not the dollar cost of deportations, it was what it would look like. The images of soldiers (or even just regular police) rounding men, women and children up and putting them in trucks or trains to be deported would be political suicide for whoever was in charge. The similarity to the images of the Holocaust would be way too obvious.

I like the idea of giving illegals less incentive to be here in the first place. As Carry_Okie pointed out, they got here on their own - thus, they wanted to come here. My question is, how do we convince them that is in their best interest to stay home in their third-world rathole rather than come to the greatest country on Earth?