I'll swallow my ire at being played for a fool if we get a real fence, mandatory sanctions against employers for future violations, and as noted here, deportation for violent criminals. (No strikes and you're out.) In other words, enforcement of the deal we thought we had under Reagan.

I've linked from Senate to America: Assume a compromising position. Smile! Patterico's idea is a step in the right direction if it's backed by enough cops to give it some teeth. If I actually believed we'd round up all of the criminal element and throw them over that fancy new fence I might even soften my stance on amnesty for the rest.

Any plans to deport illegal aliens who have not commited any other crime, but do not register?

Dan Kauffman:

Any plans to deport illegal aliens who have not commited any other crime, but do not register?

That's detail work best left to the administration to, er, administer.

My guess is it would depend on how many regularized themselves. If there were five hundred thousand left unregistered, it would probably be easier to go after them than if it were five million left.

Dafydd

Dafydd

That happens to be EXACTLY the detail left out of ALL the "previous" Amnesty Programs that we were told would "fix" these problems.

Shouldn't we be hearing a little more

"specifics" about this detail?

If there are 12 Million illegals and 2 Million register what do we do then. Let it slide for a few more years and do this all over again because

every knows we cannot deport 10 Million guests or do we start with one State say Maine and systematically search out illegal aliens and those who employ them deporting the first group and putting the second behind bars and then move to the next state etc?

Dan Kauffman:

Dan, listen carefully: everybody knows we cannot deport millions of people because we cannot deport millions of people. It is physically impossible.

Let's take just one state: California. There are probably between four and five million illegals here. Please explain, step by step, how you would go about rounding them up and deporting them.

No hand-waving, Dan; no Phil Donohue-esque "we just go right in there and get them." I want specifics.

And when you finish, you have forty-nine states to go.

Dafydd

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