$100 billion a year is hardly gazillions. Last year, the Congress spent $33 billion on pork projects alone. Revisit that obscene Farm Bill of 2002, and you could easily come up with another $70 billion per year.
What is intrusive about law enforcement officials entering a place of business to check whether employees are legal? Government inspectors enter businesses all the time.
Posse Comitatus Act.
Posse Comitatus limits the use of the military for LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is quite in line with the Posse Comitatus Act for the military to patrol our borders and protect them from invasions, in this case an invasion of illegal immigrants.
Or is it your contention that if a hostile military ever attacked our homeland, the invasion would have to be repulsed by the sheriff's department?
And, in general, conservatives want a lot LESS of that, remember? We insist on things like "probable cause" and "search warrants," remember?
Posse Comitatus limits the use of the military for LAW ENFORCEMENT.
What's the term again? ILLEGAL immigration? Does that not imply that ENFORCING the LAWS against illegal immigration is LAW ENFORCEMENT?
It is quite in line with the Posse Comitatus Act for the military to patrol our borders and protect them from invasions, in this case an invasion of illegal immigrants.
Or is it your contention that if a hostile military ever attacked our homeland, the invasion would have to be repulsed by the sheriff's department?
Please explain which "hostile military" the illegal aliens belong to.
You've managed to argue both sides at once, AND lose both arguments at once.