[Dane]

Solution? Why not simply aggresively deport ALL illegals and start from scratch? Answer: Because it is POLITICALLY INCORRECT.

Because the economy would crumble, like it or not.

[F16Fighter]

If, as you say, the American economy would "crumble" as an after affect of deporting all illegal immigrants, then:

--Our economy is as a house of cards? I think not.

--There are tens of millions infesting our shore already - further proof of abysmally inept border "protection".

-- A Democratic constituency would be deprived of a further voting bloc and base.

[Proud2BAmerican]

Because the economy would crumble, like it or not.

Admittedly, I'm no economist, but this statement seems to me a rather oversimplification of a possible outcome. I assume you're predicating this on the loss of workers (doing jobs that nobody else wants), and the loss of "purchasers" (that is, the people who buy "things" in our economy).

Again, I don't have a degree in economics, but in my mind, I wonder if those losses wouldn't be offset by:

A) Employers being forced to pay a decent wage for those jobs that "nobody else wants," or else be forced with watching their strawberries die on the vine and the washed cars pile up waiting for folks to dry them off.

and B) We'd have that many more illegals clogging up our school systems, prisons, and health care system, with the overall effect being lower taxes and more money in legal residents' pockets to buy those "things."

Again, these are just my own personal (and uninformed) observations.

[BlackbirdSST]

Because the economy would crumble, like it or not.
Oh, so you mean the next time I go to Wendy's in Dranesville Virginia, I won't be served by non english speaking mexicans. There wasn't one english speaking, non hispanic person on the shift anywhere, I made it a point to look for one. What an economic burden. Toe that party line Dane. Blackbird.