Self deportation will happen with 50% or more of the illegals. Once they see people arrested and getting jail time, that’ll go up to 90%.
I'm hoping that the chef, cook, help wanted signs I'm seeing in city neighborhood restaurants are really indicative of what I think.
Step 1. Build the wall. Physical or Electronic, doesn't matter. So long as it keeps out the people it's supposed to keep out.
Step 2. Cut off Welfare Benefits and stop the practice of Sanctuary Cities. Enforce employment laws already on the books.
Step 3. Loudly and Publicly, send home the first few people that are caught in Steps 1+2.
Most of the rest will self-deport. What's left will be a problem of a magnitude we can deal with.
I'm curious to see what a country without 20-odd million illegals in it will look like. What I really wondering about is how all the hidden costs will shake out. The drain, for instance, on Welfare, Hospitals, Schools, Law Enforcement, and so on, is enormous. Lots of local governments and public organizations will get an unexpected surplus of cash, I'd think.
On a personal level, I'd imagine that wages will necessarily go up. Heck, just a cutback in the billions we spend on insurance for uninsured motorists, will be substantial, I'd think.
“Self deportation will happen with 50% or more of the illegals. Once they see people arrested and getting jail time, that’ll go up to 90%.”
Taking them off all forms of welfare will make a huge percentage self-deport right away. Enforcing the laws where they are working will send another huge percentage home. The IRS can also get involved by sending agents to investigate all the false SS numbers employers are paying SS payments to.
I think jail time is key to getting a handle on are border. I would not do the catch and release at the border hold any one sneaking over for three month in detention before sending them back. charge any one with trafficking a minor if they are caught sneaking children over the border and are not the parent. if they are the parent child endangerment.