Posted on 09/12/2007 8:29:51 PM PDT by LouAvul
LOLOL! Now wouldn't that be perfect justice? I'm visualizing the road gang scene from Cool Hand Luke. Thanks for making my day!
Even still, $100 billion is cheaper than the trillions these welfare/ID theft scammers will eventually cost us.
I definitely like the way you think. lol
Money well spent.
So I guess it is cheaper to pay the trillion dollars per year that illegals are costing us. /sarcasm
That’s just the cost of processing them, detaining them, and shipping them back. The cost to apprehend all of the illegals is probably infinite, or otherwise in the trillions of dollars.
A DUmmie made a post that if we just paid the illegals 100 billion dollars to leave, they probably would.
While I definitely don’t agree with this approach, for the obvious reason that this will only promote future illegal immigration, the thought did have an interesting merit. Namely, using a governmental approach to apprehend the illegal immigrants is not going to work. Yes, we can and we should deport all illegals who are arrested in day-to-day life and if the state police officers need to be granted federal deputy powers, we should provide that for them. However, we’re not going to catch the illegal hiding in his apartment giving away no real clues.
IMHO, what we need to do is:
1. Deport all illegals arrested for a criminal offense. The cost of this will be in the billions, but it won’t be $100 billion.
2. Make the fine for corporations hiring illegal immigrants so high, that instantly it will put them out of business. The end result will be that employers will not risk hiring illegals, illegals will not find work and then they will not come to America. Maybe, initially, these fines will serve to offset the above enforcement costs.
3. Make legal immigration more accessible. The one reason I don’t support cracking down on illegal immigration is so that dumb people can get jobs more easily. If you interview for the same job as somebody who does not speak English, and you get passed over, how bad was your interview? Our immigration laws should not protect the lazy. Ironically, people like John Edwards oppose legal immigration but support illegal immigration, presumably to foster a criminal culture where you get what you want by breaking the rules.
4. Don’t presume that big government is the answer to the illegal immigration problem.
That was my idea. ;)
If you honsestly think the Earnings Suspense file has real names in it, you’re dreaming.
And tax legitimate transactions as well?
Those hard new laws have to cause grief to the illegal out free. Nobody’s going to pack up and go home because he might have an increased chance of being caught. He needs to not be able to work and not get assistance while he is in the States. For good measure, we’ll pay the one way tab for him to go home perhaps.
Yes, I honestly believe that the ESF has real names — the employers’ names and addresses are real. That’s the important part. The employees may be using phony names and SSNs, yes. That’s why the W-2 data are in the ESF.
Money well spent, for a change.
According to O’Reilly there are 267,000 prisoners in the U.S. in various prisons. At $30,000 per prisoner to house them that is 8 Billion 10 Million dollars. Makes the figure in the title seem more realistic since we can add many billions more in entitlements illegals are helping themselves to. I say let’s pay it and at least get them out of our country.
Exactly. The fact is, these laws are really working. Many are packing up and leaving. Some are returning to Mexico, some to a different State that has less onerous laws.
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