[expatpat]

I've read your referenced posts, and am not convinced. Asset forfeiture is an extreme step, and a slippery slope, indeed, likely to be abused. I'm against most of the current laws/actions in that area. Moreover, few of these illegals have much in the way of assets -- their earnings are modest and they send it back to Mexico quite regularly.

Your approach leads to a modest proposal: Why not hang captured illegals? -- that would self-deport them, even more quickly.</sarcasm

[Sabertooth]

I've read your referenced posts, and am not convinced. Asset forfeiture is an extreme step, and a slippery slope, indeed, likely to be abused. I'm against most of the current laws/actions in that area. Moreover, few of these illegals have much in the way of assets -- their earnings are modest and they send it back to Mexico quite regularly

$12 billion a year in cash goes across the borders. There are Illegal Alien bank accounts that were opened with matricula consular ID cards. The wire transfers would simply have to be intercepted.

There are Illegals who own houses and cars. All of that should be forfeit.

Like I said, there are plenty of other proposals, if that one doesn't catch your fancy.

Your approach leads to a modest proposal: Why not hang captured illegals? -- that would self-deport them, even more quickly.</sarcasm

Ah, I was under the misimpression you were sincerely looking for alternatives to doing nothing or the Bush Amnesty.

Carry on.

[John O]

Your approach leads to a modest proposal: Why not hang captured illegals? -- that would self-deport them, even more quickly.< /sarcasm>

Get rid of the sarcasm tag and you'd be right on. Illegal aliens are no more than non-uniformed enemy combatants in the war against terrorism. They all deserve to be shot and the bodies repatriated (from 10,000 feet - over the enemy's capital)

(Ok maybe dropping the bodies on the capital was extreme but they are still enemy combatants)