Look I don’t like it, I am as conservative as the next guy. But I am also realistic and don’t live in a world where quick slogans answer big problems. Face it, even if (and this kills it already but I’ll play the game) we could logistically get the man power and tools, say that it was all done in a timely fashion, we are talking about the federal government here, and if we could get the press not to try and spin it as bad, you know our press we love so much, we are still left with one big problem. The general public, which right now doesn’t like amnesty because it is all remote in their minds, who are decent enough people, will go nuts the first time images are displayed of federal agents rounding up the illegals. Over night our heroic new boarder guards and INS agents will become jack booted thugs and images of Nazis carrying people off to the concentration camps will be played over and over on TV in front of them. There will be a million Elian Gonzales episodes on national TV.
Then you know what will happen? Yup, that first plane of detainees will turn right around and come back. Worse, and this is the real kicker, that carefully crafted fence will be gone, because every bleeding heart group will be decrying the plight of the other poor in Mexico saying “what about these poor people, prisoners of a corrupt system” and the majority will fall for it, hook line and sinker because that is the way things go.
So it boils down to do you want a fence and 12 million new wage earners we work into the system, or open boarders, 30 million immigrants happily allowed in because we were “so harsh and cruel”
It sucks, but it’s reality.
Lock it down, work ‘em in, and never let it happen again.
If the government is admitting to there being 12 million, you can bet your sweet bippy it's more likely 25 million. And when you open the doors to the 25 million law-breakers, you can count on at least another 10 million of their relatives coming over in short order. That's 35 million people within a few years time, LEGALLY ALLOWED to partake of all the services paid by law-abiding American citizens, which was to be for the citizens, not criminals who, by corrupt government proxies, are allowed to steal away from and siphon away from my children and grandchildren, what was NEVER intended to be theirs.