The INS does enforce laws in regard to LEGAL immigration. The Government does not enforce laws in regard to ILLEGAL immigration.
We deport people all the time who are here legally and who violate the terms of their legal immigration status. My daughter in law was nearly deported back to Canada because the INS misplaced one of her documents. They had no pity on her.
Yes we do deport a lot of legal immigrants. They have agreed to deportation as a penalty for violation of their immigration contract. Illegals have made no such contract. They have not agreed to be deported if they violate the terms of their visas since they have no visas. So we don't deport them.
If this sounds like Bizzaro World, it is.
Bizarro World it is...which is my point.
We have de facto amnesty and just avoided de jure amnesty.
Unless you tell me they’re sending out the deportation squads starting Monday, then I’m right.
The Congress has passed laws that give a preference to the uneducated, and to criminals. Only honest people need fear enforcement.
So, let's change that. Give each country out there a combined quota of immigrants, visitors and "illegals". There's no reason at all for Mexico to get all the "illegals" or even a preponderance of them. This category must be shared with India, China and Pakistan (and others).
Modern technology should enable us to easily account for these folks.
So, let's say Mexico has a quota of 100,000, and we take a look and they've got 500,000 illegals, 50,000 legals, and 10,000 tourists. We grab the tourists and send them home. We round up the legals (the easiest category) and send them home as well. Then we start on Teddy Kennedy's "preferred class", the illegals, and send home 400,000 of them.
You can see how this might apply to other countries.
No doubt the folks still back in the old country will be mightily discouraged to prevent "illegals" from coming to America.