“It’s no different that rat control. Get rid of open trash cans and remove sources of food, and rats will leave and go to another neighborhoon. Crack down of illegal migrants and they will move to a neighboring area that doesn’t have the crackdowns.”
Personally I think the best way to end this plague is not to target individuals, though that is important and must be done. The best way to fight this and what I think the central aspect of any attempt to get rid of these people should be is to go after employers aggressively. Take away their access to jobs and you will fewer people enter the US and more selfdeport.
I agree- the idea of large-scale deportations is not politically feasible. Americans would not like to see illegals rounded up en masse and put on buses.
But the strategy of making it difficult for them to keep living in our society will work very well in the long-term. Require proof of citizenship to obtain government services. Impose heavy fines on employers who hire illegals. Every time an illegal is arrested, he should be deported (after his criminal sentence, if applicable). And so on. Over time, it will just become too difficult for illegals to live in this country, and they will sell-deport.
Fairfax has been vigorously enforcing the "no more than 3 unrelated individuals" law, and that by itself drives illegal aliens out of the jurisdiction since it takes more than 3 of 'em paying rent to afford Fairfax.
All the "planned for illegals" rooming house expansions around the county have gone bankrupt and are being foreclosed.
There's been a decided reduction in the number of illegals seen around the county this Summer, and malls report that the number of illegals shopping there has fallen off substantially ~ they're not even hanging around the parking lots now (although a decidedly darker crowd with "do rags" has been taking up the slack at certain locations, but that's a special market).
Which leads to a good question about who is doing the robberies?
My money is on professional home robbers who migrate around the country. With construction in the dumps, and few pick up jobs available for spot cash income I'm just going to guess that the Murpheys from South Carolina and the Williams Clan are doing the hits.