[Sudetenland]

You are right, "Operation Wetback" was a rousing success, but you can't even mention the name in public today. You really believe that the American people would back that sort of action today? You really believe the courts would allow Ike's solution today? Seriously?

Anyone who attempted anything close to "Operation Wetback" would be slammed with so many lawsuits and court actions that it would paralyze our entire government and with the judges and justices we have sitting in our courts, a large percentage of those actions would be affirmed.

As for your "smearing" comment; no such thing. I include myself in that group a few years ago, until I really took a serious, close up look at the problem and what could actually be achieved in Congress. Reality is a hard dollar and what we wish would happen and what is possible are frequently not the same thing. Get used to disappointment if you aren't aware of that.

[Pelham]

“Anyone who attempted anything close to “Operation Wetback” would be slammed with so many lawsuits and court actions that it would paralyze our entire government and with the judges and justices we have sitting in our courts, a large percentage of those actions would be affirmed.”

I’m very familiar with the Just-Give-Up school of thought.

It’s an old standard for Michael Medved who can usually be counted on to tip off what the GOP establishment is thinking.

Medved would first insist that illegal immigration is too insignificant to be a problem, and then immediately follow up with the argument that it is too big of a problem to ever be addressed by deportation and border control.

Just Give Up. The advice of Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings.

“As for your “smearing” comment; no such thing. “

Sure you did. You compared a border fence to the Berlin Wall.

It’s a comparison routinely employed by opponents of border control. It must be on page one of the handbook, right next to equating mass deportation with the cattle cars employed by Nazi Germany.