It is only around 20 million people we are talking about here, after all.
If 100% of all three of our government bodies woke up tomorrow and in one unanimous voice and vote declared the illegal aliens would be deported - WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
Answer: Notta - nuttin' - forget it. It's too huge. There is no way for Mexico to be able to absorb that many people and no way for us to get them out of here - even if every breathing legitimate citizen and elected official in this nation was in total, harmonious agreement over it.
>>There is no way for Mexico to be able to absorb that many people and no way for us to get them out of here<<
Strong disagreement coming from me! These Mexicans would be going back to Mexico in much better shape than when they left. Their personal assets would be 1000 x's greater. They now know what is required to performa days work in America and make a success of themselves. The number of Mexican businessmen in America is not a small number. Take those skills back home and apply them!
NO! I don't buy into your defeatist attitude either. In conjunction with securing the borders, enforcing existing laws that punish employers who hire illegals and halting all welfare payouts to illegals, a multi-year moratorium would be ideal. If need be, the feds should seriously consider placing US military units on the borders to assist the USBP in enforcing the law. After taking these steps and stopping the flow of illegals into the US, then and only then can any guest worker program be considered and expected to operate properly. Otherwise all that is being accomplished is to perpetuate and exacerbate a serious national security problem. A problem that will continue to undermine our constitutional republic.
The beauty of it is that it robs the media of convenient "martyr" material, the illegal-legal eagles of clients and saves us (the United States) billions of dollars because the aliens remove themselves at their own expense.
The critical necessity to get that ball rolling is more politicians willing to cough up their best contributors. We can pressure them to do so with our votes and, more importantly, our individually small contributions that constitute the majority of campaign funding by law.
So don't hesitate to throw a RINO on the barby this Memorial Day weekend! Just watch out for all that splattering pork fat.