[Southack]

"You've missed the point and the illustration of the Asymmetrical approach. When you deport the thousands that you can find easily, many of the remaining millions will self-deport."

Indeed. I've missed it. I don't see why *other* illegals will go home on their own based simply on their peers being forceably deported.

To me that looks like scoring an own goal.

Besides, your initial point in your opening editorial for this thread was to convince illegals to go home voluntarily, something that I have a difficult time reconciling with forced deportations.

On the other hand, that's what Bush's plan accomplishes.

[Sabertooth]

Indeed. I've missed it. I don't see why *other* illegals will go home on their own based simply on their peers being forceably deported. To me that looks like scoring an own goal. Besides, your initial point in your opening editorial for this thread was to convince illegals to go home voluntarily, something that I have a difficult time reconciling with forced deportations.

It works because enforcement of the law against a few begets compliance with the law among the many. It's the same logic as three strikes laws.

Look at the thread about the Pakistani Illegals in my tagline. Self-deportation works.

Also, your phrase "based simply on their peers being forceably deported" is wildly inaccurate. I have a number of proposals in addition to deportations to encourage Illegals to self-deport in the "Eighteen Illegal Aliens Solutions" link in the essay at the top of this thread.

[judgeandjury]

I don't see why *other* illegals will go home on their own based simply on their peers being forceably deported.

Operation Wetback, which was carried out in 1954, accomplished this very successfully. Once illegal aliens began to be rounded up by American authorities, large numbers of illegal aliens started to leave the U.S. voluntarily. In fact, of all the illegal aliens that were forced to return to Mexico in 1954, the majority of them went back voluntarily.