Deportations do not work. Imagine you catch a rat in your pantry using a "humane" trap. You carry the rat in the trap out your front door then tell it don't come back and let it go. Where do you think the rat will go?
If we had an effective border wall it would help but a much better option would be to get them all to self-deport.
You could insure that the vast majority would self-deport by treating illegal immigration as an aggravating factor for any, and I mean any, additional crime. You get a ticket for jaywalking and you aren't a citizen? That's now a felony.
In an ideal world the penalty for that would be execution. If we could swing that then we'd need to set up a way for people to admit they were illegals and then help them return home. Most would self-deport once a few were tried, convicted, and executed. A more humane option (which would probably be more possible because a century ago American men lost their collective minds and extended the franchise to women) would be 20 years imprisoned with hard labor. They came here to work right? Set them to work building the wall and whatever other public projects we decide on.
Deportations do not work. Imagine you catch a rat in your pantry using a "humane" trap. You carry the rat in the trap out your front door then tell it don't come back and let it go. Where do you think the rat will go?
If we had an effective border wall it would help but a much better option would be to get them all to self-deport.
You could insure that the vast majority would self-deport by treating illegal immigration as an aggravating factor for any, and I mean any, additional crime. You get a ticket for jaywalking and you aren't a citizen? That's now a felony.
In an ideal world the penalty for that would be execution. If we could swing that then we'd need to set up a way for people to admit they were illegals and then help them return home. Most would self-deport once a few were tried, convicted, and executed. A more humane option (which would probably be more possible because a century ago American men lost their collective minds and extended the franchise to women) would be 20 years imprisoned with hard labor. They came here to work right? Set them to work building the wall and whatever other public projects we decide on.