Illegal immigration? Eisenhower had an answer

North Jersey Media ^ | 7-10-06 | JOHN DILLIN

[curiosity]

Illegal alein roundups + incentives for self-deportaiton are a realistic alternative to amnesty. We already did it once. We can do it again.

[curiosity]

I don't think Mexico would allow this today.

Who cares? How are they going to stop us?

[ZULU]

"To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free. "

Catapults.

[Dead Corpse]

A trebuchette has a longer range and depending on the counter-weight used a heavier slinging capacity.

[ZULU]

Hey. You're right.

I like that.

[sinkspur]

Illegal alein roundups + incentives for self-deportaiton are a realistic alternative to amnesty. We already did it once. We can do it again.

Roundups are not going to happen. They're way too politically explosive and most Americans are opposed to them anyway.

Non-starter.

[Calpernia]

good read

[SwinneySwitch]

Here too:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661684/posts

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the cross reference :)

[SwinneySwitch]

Another one:;^)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661011/posts

[Christopher Lincoln]

There are several things about this story that don't make much sense; I'm listing them in the hope that somebody will explain them.

1. Before 1965, there was no quota limiting immigration from Mexico; why did Mexicans need to get their backs wet, literally or figuratively? I've been wondering about this for some time.

2. How did the INS identify, let alone physically catch, 50,000 illegal aliens in 45 days (June 17 to end of July)? I can see only two possibilities: either they already had lists of the illegals, with their addresses, or they "apprehended" people who looked and sounded Mexican, without regard to citizenship or immigration status.

3. How did the INS agents, on the average, arrest more than their own number each day and keep this up for months? Is this even physically possible? It could not have been possible by any stretch if the arrested had been in any way disposed to resist.

4. How could the United States government help but set the aliens free the moment they crossed the border? Only by persuading the Mexican government to detain them. Indeed, that would not happen today; I'm amazed that it happened then.

5. How did the government determine the number of illegals who fled the country fearing arrest? All right, this is a rhetorical question.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Roundups are not going to happen. They're way too politically explosive and most Americans are opposed to them anyway. Non-starter.

So you like the trebuchette idea?

[NewRomeTacitus]

While someone is cooking up a dose of vociferous OBL invective for me I wanted to thank you for quoting dear departed Travis'most important message: Article IV Section 4 is their duty, not an option.

[DesScorp]

This was posted last year, but it deserves repeating. I love Ike’s idea to put the illegals on ships and send them hundreds of miles to the south of Mexico, so they can’t just turn around and jump the border again.