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I listened to Medved the other day talking to a caller about the illegal immigration problem...

The caller wanted all of the millions of illegals that are currently living in the USA deported...back to Mexico.

Medved told him that if we did that...it would really crash our economy...and NOT because of lettuce pickers...but, because, like it or not, they have bought homes, rent apartments, have businesses, and work in all kinds of jobs..

IF they were all rounded up....think of the mortgages, rent, and other type of credit that would NOT be paid for, the businesses that would immediately go out of business...and the local businesses that would lose the customers...

Pretty much a domino effect...

NOW..living in Texas...I am very ticked about the illegals using our hospitals and schools for free...and other negatives...like uninsured illegals driving and getting in car accidents...etc...

HOWEVER..after listening the the analytical way that Medved put it (no histrionics)...it made me think more, rather that react emotionally.

I addressed that very issue a while back.

If we were to round up every person suspected of being illegal......the jails would be full. Every person would be entitled to legal representation to be sure they were illegal. Their children would be where??????????

We would be caring for them in prison for endless periods of time.

The logistics of rounding up people and imprisoning them is so antithetical to our way of life.

There is no practical way, other than to get our borders more secure. To be sure that anyone caught committing a crime would be immediately deported and ceasing immediately this business of in state tuition and other amenities that many Americans cannot afford.

Rounding up millions of people is not going to happen.

Mind you I'm extremely biased on this issue as my Thai wife has gone through the entire immigration policy and INS (now BICE) is so thoroughly messed up it is no wonder that they are letting people wander in the weeds while legitimate immigrants are denied their green cards and their citizenship. I had to work through my Congressman to get a really routine Green Card issued some years ago. My opinion: we need to get a handle on border security--BUT it has to be tied to a total reform of BICE (formerly INS). If you don't tie it, the congresscritters will never do it. It's 2 sides of the same coin...you need to be able to track when important deadlines for filing additional paperwork is needed but also be able to issue the followon paperswork to keep it legal. A LOT of immigrants don't have relatives to call congresscritters to help keep them "in status". So--I'm with a version of the President's guest worker policy and fair paths to legal residency as long as its tied to border security and checks on all immigrants using existing databases. I know it can be done. It may make me be different from some conservatives who just want to close the border. Tom Tancredo has made that popular but it is not only unfair to families, but it can't economically work.

..... illegals that are currently living in the USA deported....

Here in Tampa, we just had an illegal crash into the Mayors bodyguards car
killing him. Of course the perp fled the scene of the crime, only to be
tracked down an hour or so later. Upon arrest, he blew a .164 on the breathalyser.

He didn't have a license, which means he didn't have insurance. Quite the mess.

I'm not a fan of Mayor Iorio the Dem Mayor of Tampa, but all the guys on the
Tampa PD, really liked this guy.