Fine. Catch them and confiscate their assets to pay for deportation.
BTW: Once we demonstrate that we’re serious about deporting them, a lot (most?) illegals will deport themselves...
My “Modest Proposal de jure”.
1. Pay bounties on all illegals brought to the nearest police station.
It worked for bandits in the Old West. It can work for banditos all over America.
2. The bounties are paid from the assets of the illegals, with the government only picking up any remainder. Forfeiture could then be rightly used, for once.
3. No more bureaucrats would be necessary, as the general public would happily start turning ‘em in.
The IRS spends more than that keeping tabs on AMERICANS.
Fine employers, imprison some invaders, the rest will leave for free.
A Bargain!
Get that in writing, get it started ASAP and build the damned fence!
Bullshi'ite. Put a 1000 dollar bounty on every single one of them and watch how fast they self-deport. 30 million * 1K = 30 billion
Even still, $100 billion is cheaper than the trillions these welfare/ID theft scammers will eventually cost us.
Money well spent.
So I guess it is cheaper to pay the trillion dollars per year that illegals are costing us. /sarcasm
That’s just the cost of processing them, detaining them, and shipping them back. The cost to apprehend all of the illegals is probably infinite, or otherwise in the trillions of dollars.
A DUmmie made a post that if we just paid the illegals 100 billion dollars to leave, they probably would.
While I definitely don’t agree with this approach, for the obvious reason that this will only promote future illegal immigration, the thought did have an interesting merit. Namely, using a governmental approach to apprehend the illegal immigrants is not going to work. Yes, we can and we should deport all illegals who are arrested in day-to-day life and if the state police officers need to be granted federal deputy powers, we should provide that for them. However, we’re not going to catch the illegal hiding in his apartment giving away no real clues.
IMHO, what we need to do is:
1. Deport all illegals arrested for a criminal offense. The cost of this will be in the billions, but it won’t be $100 billion.
2. Make the fine for corporations hiring illegal immigrants so high, that instantly it will put them out of business. The end result will be that employers will not risk hiring illegals, illegals will not find work and then they will not come to America. Maybe, initially, these fines will serve to offset the above enforcement costs.
3. Make legal immigration more accessible. The one reason I don’t support cracking down on illegal immigration is so that dumb people can get jobs more easily. If you interview for the same job as somebody who does not speak English, and you get passed over, how bad was your interview? Our immigration laws should not protect the lazy. Ironically, people like John Edwards oppose legal immigration but support illegal immigration, presumably to foster a criminal culture where you get what you want by breaking the rules.
4. Don’t presume that big government is the answer to the illegal immigration problem.
Money well spent, for a change.
According to O’Reilly there are 267,000 prisoners in the U.S. in various prisons. At $30,000 per prisoner to house them that is 8 Billion 10 Million dollars. Makes the figure in the title seem more realistic since we can add many billions more in entitlements illegals are helping themselves to. I say let’s pay it and at least get them out of our country.