Posted on 08/25/2015 11:00:14 AM PDT by fruser1
I'm getting pretty tired of this line and I'd like to point out how ridiculous it actually is, by way of analogy.
Ever been on the highway? Ever notice all those folks going over the speed limit? (I'm one of them, by the way.)
Imagine if the govt broadcast "We can't possibly pull over millions of speeders every day!" and, to top it off, make good on not doing it.
I believe you'd be seeing a lot more speeders on the road. Especially if they never see anyone getting pulled over for it.
Since it is actually true that there are not enough resources to pull over everyone, what the govt does instead is:
1) pull over who they can, limited by resources.
2) occasionally broadcast public service announcements such as "We're going to step up enforcement of speeding this holiday weekend..."
But what do they do for illegal immigration is -
1) Broadcast "We Can't Possibly Deport Millions of Illegals..."
How stupid can you be? It's really no wonder folks stream in.
If this was only broadcast on the democrat side of politics, it'd just be another ridiculous leftist argument.
But since the repub majority adds their voice to the choir, it becomes a ridiculous form of government.
THE BIG LIE
Great analogy.
I’m sick of this pandering excuse making too.
But we can make them want to leave.
There's only one thing required to deport every last one of them - the will.
Why Can’t we?!
We need an Act of The Will.
“Deport” (as in arrest and put on a ship to Mexico) them “all” ...
With the right policy a lot of them would deport themselves.
Derail the gravy train and they’ll self-deport.
If they're starving, they'll go back to where they came from. It can be done.
Who says???? The GOPee and their ilk???? lolol
But here are some facts:
1) The U.S. deported 386,473 immigrants in each of the first four years of the Obama administration. Basically, in four years Obama removed 13 times more illegal immigrants -- including criminals -- than all the arrests by FDR of legal Japanese Americans/immigrants, and few people even noticed.
2) In the ten years starting with 2004, ICE deported a total of 3.3 million immigrants. Half of those were "interior arrests"; meaning the immigrants were picked up while already deep into the United States. The streets of America hardly looked like a "police state" when this took place.
3) Annual deportation levels are now more than double than during the second term of Bill Clinton, and it is tenfold the poor 39,000 annual deportations of the first five years of the 1990s. Doubling the deportation levels from the current levels is within reach and would take only a decade to remove 11 million; many of which -- here on expired visas -- would leave on their own if a fair, reentry system is set-up.
4) ICE has a budget of $6 billion. Doubling it to $12 billion to assure a doubling of deportations is hardly against the grain of limited government. Besides, the cost of illegal immigration is much higher for the federal government than the cost of deportations.
Why not?
Mexico did.
By the time the first million illegals were deported, the remaining millions would be making plans to return home.
-PJ
The equally troubling refrain is that there are only 11-12 million illegal aliens in the country. Our eyes tell a different story, which is that there is likely 30-60 million illegal aliens in the US. Everywhere you go places are infested and overcrowded with Mexicans and others, English is rarely spoken.
If they have no job and no welfare they will leave on their own.
Exactly!
Shuddup /S
Can’t never could. Maybe you can’t, but there are just a whole bunch of us who know we can. Have a nap or sumthin. We’ll wake you up when it’s over.
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