Deporting Millions of Illegal Immigrants or Playing Doctor Frankenstein
All,
With such lousy details and lack of vision, this is looking like "I like it!" but it is very bad policy.
Here is some food for thought:
1) Even conservative legal experts agree that each and every illegal immigrant must be provided due process in the courts before being deported. That will take years (decades with the current court system) and cost $ billions. How long and for how much?
2) A wall is just a fancy speed bump without a massive 24/7/365 enforcement army (learned in the Marines the difference between an obstacle and a barrier). How many $ tens of billions will that cost to build and operate? I am willing to pay but be honest, tell the truth. Let the American people know the real bill that the politician's mouths are writing.
3) There are about there are at least four million essential jobs that Americans no longer deem acceptable.
Do you know anyone who says: “Yeah we’re really proud of our son Jim, he will graduate from high school next year and we hope he can start as a seasonal farm worker,” or how about “Our daughter Susan is such a joy, we are so excited that she landed a position as a maid at the local motel”?
Why spend $100’s of millions or $ billions to deport millions who must be invited back? Why can’t we enact the guest worker program to make the problem more manageable and at a fraction of the cost?
4) Even if "The Wall" undertaking is accomplished, over 40% of the illegals (that once included two of the 9/11 attackers) arrived legally and disappeared into America. What is the plan for that?
5) Organizing mass arrests by the Federal Government is a road no American should go down.
Creating an all-encompassing national law enforcement architecture intended to penetrate every city, town, village and farm in America and arrest and detain millions -- a Washington-directed search and arrest machine with unlimited reach -- scares me 10x or even 100x more than illegal immigrants.
Once that government program is erected it can never go away. Even if it were dismantled later (a near impossibility for Washington), the blueprint will live on.
This is creating Frankenstein’s Monster.
If you think Lois Lerner’s attacks on Conservatives were abusive and helped undermine our civil liberties, imagine what a future "Lois Lerner" could have done if (instead of ordering an audit) she possessed the power to arrest and detain as many Americans as desired at any place and at any time?
You may be happy when the illegals are rounded up but what if the future “Lois Lerner” types later decided to outlaw handguns and turned on the “national police” apparatus to make it a reality? What if they wanted to criminalize types of speech and arrest offenders? What if they declared whole groups of Americans (leaders of the Tea Party?) as class enemies and decided to detain them?
By going to such an extreme solution would we not have sowed the seeds for a future of extreme abuses?
Why risk it?
If Conservatives think they can control this" monster" and keep the far left from using against good Americans in the future they are sadly mistaken.
Stop this now and in its entirety.
Our founders feared and detested the concept of a national police arm. They deliberately omitted it from the Constitution. They were right: Whatever the ill, the “Gestapo-esque” cure will surely be worse than the disease.
Mike
