>>>Some people are in such a frenzy over this issue that it seems to have clouded their ability to >>think logically. Not meaning that at the level of their general opinion about the problem of >>illegal immigration, but in terms of logistics. They talk blithely about deporting 12 million >>people as though it could actually be done. Remember Elian Gonzalez? (I know you do). That was >>one kid.
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>First of all I'm not in a frenzy. I AM thinking logically. Something has to be done.
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>Secondly, our politicians are so busy trying find new legal ways to solve the problem, they
>forgot the laws we already have.
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>Illegals are illegal. So arrest them and take the booty they have acquired as a result of
>their illegal activity.
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>This isn't deportation. Take away the incentive to stay in America illegally and they will go
>somewhere else. There's no logistics to consider, as they will leave on their own.

The logistics is in rounding up 12 million people to arrest. Where will you hold them until they are processed? If you are going to do it in dribs and drabs, then they won't be finished with the current crop before you and I are dead, and the line will keep getting longer.

>Enforcement is the key.

Logistics is the key.