When I was in Texas, my Mexican American neighbor rented a small trailer to 5 young male illegals that worked on nearby ranches. They were so quiet that I only saw them twice going in the trailer over 6 months. I swear they had to push their car up and down the driveway they were so quiet and invisible. I felt both respect and sadness for them. There is no way you are going to catch them after they have crossed the border. They are invisible, but in plain sight.
This begs the obvious question. Then what is your problem with them?
My answer is though to take many of the border patrol people currently on our southern border and visit all employers. Even that rancher. He is breaking all kinds of laws. He is likely a felon and the illegals have only committed minor misdemeanors. Trump wants 30 billion a year for the wall. For 30 billion we could hire 150,000 immigration officers and give each of them a $100,000 per year budget for getting around. At this number one in every 2200 people in the US would be an immigration agent. About one year would do it. Do you think that would solve the problem?
One billion would hire 5000 agents. Put the additional 100 agents into each state (adjusted by illegal population estimates) and arrest those who hire them. Be nice. Give one warning. Then arrest them. I am talking these ranchers, farmers, hotel owners, construction company owners. You name it. The problem will end overnight.
Of course Texas will be in a trick bag with 10% of their population is unemployed overnight. Here is what would happen:
First of all these newly unemployed people would have nowhere to go. Home? How would they get there? Mexico certainly wouldn't let them cross. Then there are the 60% of them who have been here over a decade. What of them? Do we send them home? Where is home? What of the 30% if them who have one or more children who are American citizens? Who takes the kids? You can't deport American citizens. Maybe we get a shit ton of day care and residential care workers to look after them. Perhaps giant residential schools where they can live and go to school rather than live with those misdemeanor committing parents of theirs. That's the ticket. We take millions of American citizen children and put them in foster homes and boarding schools.
Texas would have another teensy weensy problem. Many if not most restaurants and hotels would shut down. Construction would screech to a stop. Day care centers would shut down sending millions of moms and dads home to take care of the kids. These illegals who were previously covered by health insurance at work would all of a sudden challenge the medical system uninsured. The market would be flooded with homes for sale.
You see guys, what you seem to want is simply impossible. So are you saying that you only want to stop more and let the ones here alone? If that is the case you should come over to the democratic side. That is what they want. They are for stopping illegal immigration and giving work and a path to citizenship to many who are here already. Particularly the 60% of them who have been here over 10 years. But you would have to abandon Trump at once. He wants to deport all of them. There is absolutely no ambiguity in the term "Zero Tolerance". "Arrest them all", he says. "Take the children", he says.
A conservative icon, Ronald Reagan, had the solution to the ones who have been living and working here for a long time. Which of you so-called conservatives will have the moral courage to make a post here with his conservative republican solution. Go ahead. I won't do it for you.
You are holding a position that is unjustifiable either morally or logically. You must change it. If you can't, at least admit that it is simply malicious prejudice to near and dear to you to let it go.
He's talking about economic catastrophe. How can you not see that?
Hypocrisy thy name is One degree.
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