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You and Bush both should be ashamed for the slime of using the "mass deportation" line that nobody has used.

First, you have to have a real committment to control the border or nothing else matters. Controlling the border is not massive deportation.

Second, simply enforcing, absolutley enforcing existing law, mostly on the employer side, will not produce a one-time massive deportation. It cannot be done quickly, but it can be done gradually and comprehensively, in a way that, over time, more and more employers actually face enforcement penalties and as more employers become penalized, to the max, they will respond by quiting the hiring of illegals.

Gradually, majorities of illegals will, on their own (1)return "home" as employment opportunities here are diminished and (2)send one parent of a two-parent household home, to get back in line for legal entry, sending money back here to help the parent with the "anchor" child(ren) until they can legally come back.

There will be no massive deportation, but a gradual reduction of the number of illegals, over five or so years.

Some will remain, at the margins they have always secured in minor job niches - but no eventual citizenship would ever accrue to them.

But the biggest reason for that strong enforcement is that it clarifies to potential would-be illegal immigrants that you are actually, strongly enforcing the laws. Fewer will come, when they know being illegal will not be the cake-walk of lawlessness it now is.

Failure to enforce what we already have demonstrates there will be no strong intent ever put behind enforcement of the "reforms". They will be meaningless if enforcement is known to be a sham anyway.