Do people really think is possible to deport twelve million people?
459672
Of course not, but it's the principle of the matter. Do we just allow them to become legal like we did in 86?...20 years later we'll have another 15 or 20 million of them to make legal. History repeats itself...and that is what's happening right now. Now, I would ask you a question, Blanka, if you had a choice of these two scenarios, which one would you pick for the illegals?\n\n1) Ship them all out and beef up security at the border to keep them out.\n\nor\n\n2) Let them stay and work toward legal status and eventually citizenship BUT also build a HUGE Impenetrable wall to keep the next 15 Million from coming.\n\nIf you were a Senator, which would you pick, because you can't have it all. That's not the way it works. Which would you choose?\n\n***************************************\nThanks for answering, Blanka. Yes, #1 is harsh considering they are only grabbing opportunities that the government has "given" them due to their unwillingness to enforce the laws. Now, Will you answer these three questions?:\n\na)  Do you think that the government of the U.S. really doesn't want illegal workers here who can be exploited? \n\nb) Don't we both know that as soon as the illegal workers are made legal, nothing will be done to keep the next wave of them out?(...because businesses want slave labor)\n\nc) Do you find that the wall you have "agreed to" is racist? or does the U.S. as a nation have the right to control its borders (I know you feel that Calif., Ariz., Texas, etc are Mexico, but they are currently a part of the U.S.) Just curious where you stand...would you consider the wall to be racist?\n\nThanks!
889251
I support a guest worker program. I think it's impossible to throw all of them out. How are we going to find 12 million illegals? I'm a realist and know that we have to build a fence and send troops to guard it. But I know that is impossible to find all of the illegals here. We need to fine employers who hire illegals and reduce legal immigration with quotas. Illegal immigration is a serious problem and needs to be stopped.
224728
No. The process is like an electoral equivalent of the Bataan Death March already. I don't think could stand drawing it out even further.
1129452
Erm, 'love 2 b curious'\n\nExcuse me, hate to interrupt, but you do realise of course that your government is locking people up, with no contact to the outside world, no representation, no charge and no trial, for an indefinite period of time, and is not even trying to cover the fact up. It is totally public knowledge. It is not media hype. It's happened and is happening. Like the sun is shining.\nNow you may believe that of the hundreds of people that were rounded up and put into these prisons and made to kneel in the boiling heat for days on end all deserved it, but couldn't you just entertain the possibility, just humour me a little, that some of these people may have done nothing wrong?\n\nThink about it. Just maybe?
997245
I can't say if it's possible or not, but why does it surprise you hat these morally bankrupt people would try anything to retain power.?
925100
Of course not. How could you possibly know?\n\nI know the following story: in 1962 an Algerian student in the USA was accused of "threatening behavior" against another motorist and was arrested. \n\nAs it happened, Algeria had become independent a few days earlier and his father had been named Algerian ambassador to the USA.\n\nIt took an hour or so to prove that fact, and he was released by reason of diplomatic immunity.\n\nThere are thousands of hypotheses that could make an "illegal" alien non-deportable. The most common is the Geneva Refugee Convention (1950). Only a judge can determine if an alien is deportable. You cannot.\n\nAnd read this: \n"A Border Watcher Finds Himself Under Scrutiny\n"A man who boasted of capturing 12,000 illegal immigrants faces lawsuits accusing him of harassing and unlawfully imprisoning people."\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/us/24border.html
215821
No, I think that the majority of the population is good and obeys the law.  The minority needs to be punished.  If prosecution didn't exist, it would be the majority that the country would be alienating.
642772
It is impossible to deport millions of illegal immigrants because you'd need court orders in the millions to facilitate deportation. It would take years and a huge budget. The President's "guest worker program" solution is a fair and balanced decision to an existing problem - this together with increased border security is the best thing for now.
1167433
yes...in theory...it would require useing our nuclear arsensal and kill everyone on the planet not within our borders and then it would require a secret police and racial profiling concentration camps...\n\nit can be done.....only in thee extreme. i of course  believe in defeating them in various methods besides just tactical force....
535575
No.  For one thing, in many cases that is simply not possible.  Moreover, it is not generally an effective deterrent and could easily give rise to a vendetta culture.\n\nThis colony's future looks dim.
1029585
Deport them - 500 Billion\nKeep them here - 500 Trillion\nFreedom - priceless\n\nArnold said 500 billion till i listened to the Border Patrol how we're being lied to.  I wrote Arnold and told him he was wrong.
620634
Yes, it's a convenient excuse. They could deport them if they wanted to, but the politicians are in the hip pocket of big business who want cheap labor. It's like seeing a piece of litter on the ground and saying well there are millions of other pieces of litter on the ground so we'll leave that litter there because we couldn't possibly pick up every piece of litter. They don't even try, just make up excuses.
363992
We Shouldnt HAVE TO DEPORT ANYONE\n\nIf Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO(ANY EMPLOYER) of any business that was caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - NO EXCEPTIONS - then within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States And Back To Whatever Country They Came From. \n\nThey WILL NOT Stay If They Cannot Work\nNO Cost For Deportation\nAND They WONT Come Back\n\nIts TOO Easy\nThats Why It'll Never Happen
924277
No....\n\nBut deporting 11-20 MM illegals is darn near impossible.  And, at this point, it may cause some serious harm if we do get rid of illegals.  There is a place in PA (I think) that has enacted laws prohibiting illegals from renting or getting jobs.  They have largely left the city- now businesses are failing in that town.\n\nAmesty is not a solution but neither is total deportation-  It is next to impossible to accomplish.  there has to be some way for them to stay, become legal, no to citizenship and pay steep fines.\n\nSecure the borders.\n\nLet's not place this all on the Dems-- Bush has advocated some form of Amnesty as well.  And Reagan DID grant amnesty in the 80's.
1103738
Nope. Illegal is Illegal. Deport them no matter where they come from.
943240
I admire your cander for asking such a question, you must be a glutton for punishment!!!! To achieve what you are purposing you would first have to deport all citizens who are from the middle east from the countries who are going to strike. Then after all this upheaval you would need to organise a massive multinational nuclear strike. This is a massive up taking and quite frankly there are far,far too many innocent non terrorists who will be annihilated! Stupid proposal!!!!!
373490
A lot of people would think so.