Dear Secretary Chertoff:
I see you take illegal immigration as serious as you took disaster planning prior to Katrina.
With a few simple changes, you will not need to deport millions of illegals. Simply change things so that they become willing to deport themselves:
Wall off the border.
Crack down on businesses that hire illegals.
Prohibit the children of illegals from attending schools that receive federal funding, or else the schools lose the funding.
Prohibit federal funds for being used for illegals except for emergency medical care.
And take all the money we'd save and buy buses. During hurricane season, we can use them to evacuate people from places that haven't prepared. Off-season, offer free rides for illegals to go back to Mexico.
"Crack down on businesses that hire illegals."
A highly unpopular action, I'm afraid, among the businesses, many of whom were donors in 2004.
Another idea is for individuals and good businesses who don't hire illegals to refuse to do business with firms who employ illegals.
Having some remodeling or building done? Ask the contractor how he insures that no illegals work for him. Not a good answer? Find someone else.
Dining out? See that busboy who doesn't speak English? Leave.
Run a business? Contact your suppliers and insist that they provide you with WRITTEN assurance that they don't employ illegals. If you later find that they do, find another supplier.
When you find that a business employs illegals, speak to the owner or manager and tell him/her that you do not patronize businesses that hire illegals. Follow up with a letter saying the same thing.
It's one thing to ask the government to clean up a situation it has long allowed to grow. It's something else to take some personal responsibility and demand of those you do business with that they obey the law.
This is what I do.
How many large companies hire illegals? Few. Therefore you have to go after and take to trial a large number of small companies.
Prohibit the children of illegals from attending schools that receive federal funding, or else the schools lose the funding. Prohibit federal funds for being used for illegals except for emergency medical care.
What are you going to do about the fact that the Supreme Court has said you cant do that? Duh?