Invasion

'We can't deport 12 million illegals!'

June 2008

Oh Really?

By Andrew Peterson
For CoverUps.com

In a recent blog posting at The Loft, Bobby Eberle effectively rebuts one of the favorite talking points of the pro-illegal alien lobby.

How often have you heard the argument triumphantly made that we can't just deport all [insert big number here] of them to solve this problem.

In fact Republican voters have had to suffer through hearing this very argument from their own Presidential nominee – although he claims to have gotten religion on the subject since then. We'll just have to wait and see on that one.

Nonetheless, the best (because it is true) response to this argument, should you find someone aiming it at you, is this:

We don't have to deport them. They'll deport themselves if we just enforce our existing laws.

As Rachel Alexander noted in a recent posting in The Loft, "Since Arizona's local law enforcement began enforcing illegal immigration laws and an employer sanctions law went into effect, illegal immigrants have been fleeing the state in large numbers."

Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital emergency rooms, so waiting times have decreased. Although the rest of the country is in an economic slump, unemployment is going down in Arizona, from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in March. Day laborers loitering outside of Home Depot and other stores have mostly disappeared, ending months of confrontation between illegal immigrant sympathizers and protesters. Desert lands near the border are returning to their pristine condition and the wildlife is coming back. Identity theft and car thefts are decreasing.

The federal government, which has done so much over the years to make the immigration problem worse, now has a golden opportunity to make it better by cleaning up its own very messy house:

The federal government has had some embarrassing moments when illegal workers have been discovered to be working for contractors they've hired," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a news conference...

''The federal government should lead by example and not merely by exhortation,'' he said.

So the road out of this thorny and supposedly intractable problem is paved with common sense, based in turn on simple recognition of human nature. Stop encouraging them from coming, and they'll go away. Simple.

If there are no jobs available for illegal aliens, they will return to their own countries. They will go where the jobs are. It's a simple concept. Yes, we can deport 12 million illegal aliens. We can do it without "rounding them up" or using extra resources. All American employers need to do is dry up the jobs.

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