Actually, it wouldn’t be all that costly to identify, incarcerate, and deport illegal aliens that are already operating in our communities. Attrition through enforcement, essentially the premise under which all laws operate, would effectively end illegal immigration and reduce the taxpayer burdens of providing billions in education, healthcare, social services, law enforcement costs, etc,,, for illegal aliens already in our country.

By actually using enforcement practices already on the books, policies like matching numbers for social security and implementing E-Verify requirements, more American workers would benefit from employer competition for available legal workers. More working Americans equals more taxpayers. Indeed, the “American quality of life” (that was at one time arguably the envy of the world), is based on this competition for workers through wages, benefits and working conditions, that evolved over several hundred years, and prior to Liberal politicians opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants in the 70’s (along about the time Carlos was cranking out his hit records).

Attrition through enforcement is simply a scenario where you establish negative consequences that result from activities that run contrary to the interests of the community. These consequences must be swift and certain, and of sufficient punitive impact as to encourage others to avoid such activities. Rob a bank, go to jail. Violate our borders or overstay a visa, go to jail briefly, until such time as you are removed and returned to your native land. Call it the carrot and the stick. Certainly our existing immigration laws are already the most fair and forgiving of any nation on the planet. We allow over 1 million immigrants to enter and remain legally every year. Attrition through enforcement, SS number matching, E-Verify Requirements, work site raids, would be monumentally effective as they would address not only the illegal alien side of the equation, but the employer side as well. Further, by allowing the use of taxpayer funded resources (i.e. state and local police, health care professionals, social services, etc,,) to act as a force multiplier (one that is already paid for and doesn’t require additional federal bureaucracy in Washington, and that would not be subject to an Administrations re-election agenda) for federal immigration agencies, the costs of identifying, incarcerating and deporting illegal aliens is substantially reduced and thus public resources maximized. It’s hard to argue that state and local law enforcement have a better understanding of conditions on the ground in our communities, than some appointed bureaucrat in Washington who’s concerned that his Boss gets re-elected.

As more illegals and their dependents are removed by enforcement, the costs to taxpayers for continuing to support an enormous and growing population of illegal aliens is likewise reduced. One should not forget that with effective enforcement, the costs of enforcing and even deporting illegal aliens is reductive. The costs of allowing the status-quo to continue, allowing illegals to roam freely through our nation and it’s economy, will be infinite. As sanctions against employers for hiring or subcontracting illegal aliens is applied, the jobs magnet would end, and the number of prospective illegals would likewise decline. We should also consider the opportunities that would be created for American workers, entrepreneurs and government in the fields of law enforcement, incarceration, and transportation as the economy adapts it’s industry to identifying, incarcerating and removing illegal aliens. Certainly this alone would far offset any potential costs of enforcing our immigration laws and deporting the illegal aliens as necessary. Further, implementing “asset forfeiture” policies for illegal aliens and their employers, essentially denying them the ‘ill-gotten gains’ of their activities, would also help to offset the costs of enforcement and act as an additional dis-incentive for future illegal immigrants. In fact, the prospect of losing cash, jewelry, homes, cars, truck, tools, real estate, company assets, might be the most daunting impediment to future illegal immigration as both illegals and their employers would lose the very assets they broke our laws to gain.

I would note that asset forfeiture laws are already in use and effective in all fifty states, and by applying these same principals to immigration enforcement, we might actually create an environment whereby the majority of illegal aliens would self deport rather than lose their “ill-gotten gains”. Asset forfeiture as applied to illegal aliens and their employers would appeal to the American sense of justice. In a nutshell, the costs of deporting illegal aliens as they are encountered while initially high, would be finite, and reductive over time. Once a policy of effective enforcement is established, and the jobs and benefits magnet is ended, the incentives for illegal immigration would decline to negligible or at least manageable levels. The alternative is to allow the continuing escalation of unsustainable taxpayer burdens, environmental and resource degradation, and the oppressive loss of quality of life and opportunities that would result from continuing unconstrained immigration and lax enforcement policies.

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Speaking as a tax payer, I don’t want to support the worthless individuals in prison. More money goes to support prisoners than you think. They have it made, while we scrimp and save, live paycheck to paycheck and rob Peter to pay Paul, the prisoners have three square meals a day, free to them medical coverage, dental, vision, tv, work out rooms, libraries, computers and education. I believe the families of the prisoners should be paying monthly for the NEEDS of their prisoners and unburden the taxpayers from this waste of tax money.

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Black people in America are stupid if they band together with Illegal Mexicans and other illegal South Americans. They want to use the civil rights legacy. As Spike Lee says, “Wake up”!

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Study them, learn their ways so we can counter their illegal means to stay here…

http://immigrationmexicanamerican.blogspot.com/

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A very “Well Said” to “Ed Weirdnesss” and his comments. I wonder how many congressmen / law makers have thought of that? I wonder how long it would take the far left libs to try and block it.. Hats off to ED!

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Was Santana booed during his speech? How did the crowd react to his statement about “being ashamed?”

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