Deportation of Ba-baby
Well at least the right hasn’t gone completely bonkers with the deportation schemes:
President Bush had a blunt message Monday for fellow Republicans focusing only on get-tough immigration policies: He said sending all the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants back to their home countries is not the answer.
"Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic - it’s just not going to work," Bush said. "You know, you can hear people out there hollering it’s going to work. It’s not going to work."
With Congress coming back from a two-week spring recess to a long election-year to-do list and tensions flaring nationwide over immigration, Bush urged lawmakers to adopt a middle-ground policy. He called a Senate bill, which creates a way for illegal immigrants to work legally in the United States and for many to eventually become citizens, an "important approach."
"It’s just an interesting concept that people need to think through," Bush said of the bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which stalled before the congressional break.
As for Bush’s comment on deportation, a Time magazine poll in January found 50 percent of the country favored deporting all illegal immigrants. But even Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., one of Congress’ most outspoken advocates for tougher immigration laws, does not advocate mass deportation.
Well aware that November elections could end GOP control of Congress, Bush is walking a fine line on the emotional immigration issue, between his party’s conservative base which wants a clampdown on illegal immigration and business leaders who believe the economy needs immigrants to fill jobs.
Though if it illegal becomes more illegal by being a felony, then I imagine some deportation or "detention" will be happening - and no doubt more protests.
This has been Andy D.
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April 25th, 2006 at 7:46 am
We cannot deport "illegal" immigrants to many countries. If we make "illegal immigration" a felony, we will have to choose from the following options:
(1) Iinvade 100+ countries so we can dump illegal immigrants upon their territory
(2) Drop illegal immigrants out of airplanes onto their territory
(3) Transform the new felons into "permanent residents" of America - in our prisons (where they will drain our coffers far more than they do now, powering our hospitality/construction/agricultural industries)