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To: PlainOleAmerican
And your solution is...?

Enforce the laws already on the book.
E.g., the Simpson-Mazzoli that mostly got only lip-service after 1986.

That's a starting point.
36 posted on 06/10/2007 9:53:55 AM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

And you will get Washington to do this how?


53 posted on 06/10/2007 10:04:53 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: VOA
Enforce the laws already on the book.
E.g., the Simpson-Mazzoli that mostly got only lip-service after 1986.

That's a starting point.

Si Podemos!
During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower - if only for about 10 years.

In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.

Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.

One of Swing's first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.

Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.

By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.

By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.

Now, to me, that's in the neighborhood of 1,200,000 in three months.
By my cyphering, we can get rid of the mere 6,000,000 claimed by the doofuses --- in about 12 months!

Of course, not if we keep buying into the mindless "It's impossible!", "Can't be done!" --- and never try. Isn't that called a self-fulfilling prophecy in the universe of the real?

56 posted on 06/10/2007 10:10:35 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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