[marron]

If you step up enforcement, two things happen.

First, people thinking about making the trip north think twice about it.

And, secondly, people having trouble finding work, people worried about being arrested will self-deport. They go home. Mexico has its problems, but for these people it is also home.

This is not that complicated.

[Nathan Zachary]

"George Will was more colorful with his image of “200,000 buses in a caravan stretching bumper-to-bumper from San Diego to Alaska”

Or, we can load up 20 buses a day for a year or so. Plus make life so unpleasant that they will leave the same way they came. Think of all the money that could be saved just emptying out the prisons full of them, money saved by NOT giving them welfare and free health care. All those savings will more than pay for the buses and gas, free bottle of water and extra law enforcement needed to make this small effort.

[Clemenza]

I see the illegal population declining in the outer boroughs of NYC, and an end to the influx here in Central NJ.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

The findings are also consistent with data showing a drop in remittances sent home by immigrants...

Does anyone know if there are any taxes on "remittances"?

I would think that a 9% federal tariff and the usual 8.25% California sales tax, on the total amount of the transaction, would be fair.

After all, a lot of the money is earned on the underground economy and is not subject to the income tax or Social Security withholding that are so important for funding important investments our governments make for us. <\EndSarc>

[mainestategop]

only options before us are either arresting and deporting every single illegal alien or legalizing them. Actually if you take the benefits away and punish those who hire them most will leave on their own.

[Ben Ficklin]

When Krikorian published his "Attrition Theory", it was just that, theory.

This caused a lot agony until they renamed it Attrition Strategy.

So let's accept his word for it, the stepped up enforcement has worked.

An 11% reduction ain't much to crow about, especially if you consider what it has cost. They doubled the number of BP agents. The ICE budget is higher than the State Sept. And EPA.

But, it wasn't just enforcement, it was the economy. It was the falling value of the dollar.

Well Mark, the good news is the GOP strategy for getting rid of the illegals was 11% effective. The bad news is they had to destroy the economy to do it.

[Checkers]

“Traitor John” Juan McCain bump

[Delacon]

bttt

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[Toddsterpatriot]

A new report, by Steven Camarota and Karen Jensenius of my Center for Immigration Studies, estimates that the illegal-immigrant population has declined 11 percent through May of this year, down to 11.2 million from an August 2007 peak of 12.5 million.

Excellent news! Let's double the exodus next year.

[Cacique]

btt

[savedbygrace]

Several States passed laws that forced illegals out of those States. Many of the illegals that left because of the State laws went back to Mexico or other countries farther south.

This movement is a significant reason for the high number of illegals leaving the U. S., perhaps more so than any federal actions.