Ike wasn't a weak kneed RINO. If Bush had the political will and the desire to enforce existing law, he could drastically reduce the flow of illegal immigrants into this country and kick out a lot of those already here. But he lacks that will. Heck if anything his stance and statements just encourage law breaking.
Unfortunately, Edwards is still living in the 50's (a time, by the way, when I was growing up and in my teens) and there is ZERO % chance that this could be applied today.
After the first week of a "sweep" such as was done in the 50's, the ACLU, LaRaza or some other lib/dim person or organization would find some Fed Judge somewhere, who would issue an injunction "pronto," and that would effectively end that, permanently.
It would take years for a case like this to wind its way to the Supremes and by then, we would have an additional 5 - 10 million illegals.
Nope, the way to go about it is whenever an illegal is found, simply deport them, immediately. No iffs, ands or butts. No need for sweeps.
Secondly, aggressively target businesses who hire illegals and fine them heavily and if need be, have the CEO's doing a perp walk.
Next (and again we will NEVER see this) is to cut off benefits to illegals--all kinds, except emergency medical.
Last but not least (again no likely to be looked upon favorably by SCOTUS) is to repeal anchor baby laws.
"To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.;"
I don't think Mexico would allow this today. Seems likely to me that Mexico will one day refuse to allow the repatriation of it's citizens caught here. That's why we need a wall!
Not only we can; we must.
Twenty times as many citizens know this.
All we lack is leadership and the will.
Golly. I wonder which influential Texas politicians are fueling the flow of illegals these days?
"To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free. "
Catapults.
good read
1. Before 1965, there was no quota limiting immigration from Mexico; why did Mexicans need to get their backs wet, literally or figuratively? I've been wondering about this for some time.
2. How did the INS identify, let alone physically catch, 50,000 illegal aliens in 45 days (June 17 to end of July)? I can see only two possibilities: either they already had lists of the illegals, with their addresses, or they "apprehended" people who looked and sounded Mexican, without regard to citizenship or immigration status.
3. How did the INS agents, on the average, arrest more than their own number each day and keep this up for months? Is this even physically possible? It could not have been possible by any stretch if the arrested had been in any way disposed to resist.
4. How could the United States government help but set the aliens free the moment they crossed the border? Only by persuading the Mexican government to detain them. Indeed, that would not happen today; I'm amazed that it happened then.
5. How did the government determine the number of illegals who fled the country fearing arrest? All right, this is a rhetorical question.
This was posted last year, but it deserves repeating. I love Ike’s idea to put the illegals on ships and send them hundreds of miles to the south of Mexico, so they can’t just turn around and jump the border again.