A sheriff in most counties can deputize citizens. That’s how you can do a mass deportation. The legally residing, law abiding citizens can be requested to help find, document, and deport the illegals. It would be very cost effective to use volunteers.
Once it’s started in earnest, the rest will self deport. Build the Israeli style border wall behind them and tell them, if we want you, we will call you.
U.S. Constitution: Fifth Amendment
Procedural Due Process
Aliens: Entry and Deportation .—To aliens who have never been naturalized or acquired any domicile or residence in the United States, the decision of an executive or administrative officer, acting within powers expressly conferred by Congress, with regard to whether or not they shall be permitted to enter the country, is due process of law. 43 Since the status of a resident alien returning from abroad is equivalent to that of an entering alien, his exclusion by the Attorney General without a hearing, on the basis of secret, undisclosed information, also is deemed consistent with due process. 44 The complete authority of Congress in the matter of admission of aliens justifies delegation of power to executive officers to enforce the exclusion of aliens afflicted with contagious diseases by imposing upon the owner of the vessel bringing any such alien into the country a money penalty, collectible before and as a condition of the grant of clearance. 45 If the person seeking admission claims American citizenship, the decision of the Secretary of Labor may be made final, but it must be made after a fair hearing, however summary, and must find adequate support in the evidence. A decision based upon a record from which relevant and probative evidence has been omitted is not a fair hearing. 46 Where the statute made the decision of an immigration inspector final unless an appeal was taken to the Secretary of the Treasury, a person who failed to take such an appeal did not, by an allegation of citizenship, acquire a right to a judicial hearing on habeas corpus. 47
Deportation proceedings are not criminal prosecutions within the meaning of the Bill of Rights. 48 The authority to deport is drawn from the power of Congress to regulate the entrance of aliens and impose conditions upon their continued liberty to reside within the United States. Findings of fact reached by executive officers after a fair, though summary deportation hearing may be made conclusive. 49 In Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 50 however, the Court intimated that a hearing before a tribunal which did not meet the standards of impartiality embodied in the Administrative Procedure Act 51 might not satisfy the requirements of due process of law. To avoid such constitutional doubts, the Court construed the law to disqualify immigration inspectors as presiding officers in deportation proceedings. Except in time of war, deportation without a fair hearing or on charges unsupported by any evidence is a de nial of due process which may be corrected on habeas corpus. 52 In contrast with the decision in United States v. Ju Toy 53 that a person seeking entrance to the United States was not entitled to a judicial hearing on his claim of citizenship, a person arrested and held for deportation is entitled to a day in court if he denies that he is an alien. 54 A closely divided Court has ruled that in time of war the deportation of an enemy alien may be ordered summarily by executive action; due process of law does not require the courts to determine the sufficiency of any hearing which is gratuitously afforded to the alien. 55
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment05/12.html
I don’t care how many people you deputize you still have tremendous costs involved in holding and transportation. There 252 counties in Texas with just a few of them on the border with others hundreds of miles away. The counties, many of which share jail facilities simply cannot afford it. As for the fence just where do plan on building it, on the US side or the Mexican side or maybe in the middle of the river? For those that live along the Rio Grande that’s their only source of water for farming and livestock, you going to shut them off. How about all the non border states pony up some cash and send it down here to help us out instead of sitting up there and complain about us not doing enough. We need people on the ground and the money to fund them just to protect the 1200 miles of border we share with Mexico. Once we stop the flow then we’ll need more people and money to ferret out the remaining illegals that are already within the border. Not only can we not afford it we shouldn’t even have to deal with it that’s the Fed’s job, but we still do.
I’m all for putting troops on the border, I can’t think of a better place for our troops to train in ground and air support than our 1200 mile border. Pull the Border patrol back and let them ferret the remaining and completely get rid of ICE, they’re nothing but a waste of money.