(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Cost/Benefit of arresting 7 million unskilled and semi-skilled laborers and deporting them doesn't compute. Secure the border, work on integrating those that are already here.
Now we know how the Romans disappeared - due to internal desuetude that sapped the will of an entire civilization to go on living.
Western Rome fell because she constantly hemorrhaged money using the legions to attempt to secure far-flung frontiers. This eventually led to Constantine splitting Rome into two empires that subsequently started competing with each other, leading to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The East hung on for the most part until 800 A.D. and only finally fell when the Turks sacked Constantinople.
If we can't even defend our country at the border, how are we going to defend it from our enemies abroad?
I'm more concerned about our failure to amend or eliminate the grotesque farm subsidies that we shell out every year. That, far more than anything else, speaks of a lack of political will to maintain ourselves as the preeminent nation.
The writing is on the wall.
Possibly, but things change. There are reasons to hope, yet.
The next test will be to see if the government caves to nativist pressure and builds some sort of wall on the Mexican border. If that happens, I have substantially reduced hopes for our future.
What are we going to do if and when the thousands, maybe millions left in Mexico wanting to move here, start marching towards the border en masse? Build a fence, begin deporting them as often as they are caught. Begin with those in prison, dump them over the border. Make everyone prove citizenship to work, those with fake documents, deport them. Make all prove citizenship to receive benefits, deport illegals.