Make deportation somewhat self funding.
We seize the assets of drug dealers, without even having to convict them first.
Seize the assets of illegals, many of them have substantial holding, including real estate.
All they have was obtained illegally, by virtue of their illegal entry and the jobs they took from Americans.
Instead of giving them a reward (amnesty, path to citizenship) for having been here longer, send them home with NOTHING but the clothes on their backs!
The only “Immigration Reform” I will accept is sincere enforcement of the existing laws, and asset seizure to defray some of the cost of deportation.
Make sure ALL the illegal invaders are included, no matter what country they came from.
Your proposal is interesting, but somewhat uninformed.
Maybe you live in Texas like I do and know a whole different class of illegals, but your assumption that they have assets is foreign to my rather extensive experience.
These are, for the most part, people who came here with nothing and live hand-to-mouth, working hard and long hours when they can find work just to feed their families. Many have left families in Mexico and send what they earn back to them.
They work for very little, live in cramped and often shoddy housing, and have the ability to negatively affect both the job market and housing values anywhere they congregate because they are poor. Contentedly poor.
In other words, in most cases there are no assets to seize, just bodies to transport.
You’ve pointed out one of the big stumbling blocks to immigration reform: many Americans simply don’t understand the facts.
I’m totally with you in wanting illegal immigration stopped, fully and quickly. But your idea of asset seizure is — no offense intended — uninformed and laughable.