Wholesale deportation is impractical. Deport criminals, yes. And deportation should be used when busting a business for hiring illegals – for the most part.

The exception above is for families with kids born here. I know that concept takes a lot of abuse but the rationale of deporting the mother while leaving the baby escapes me. And under current law, if the baby is born here, it is a citizen – entitled to exactly the same rights as you and I.

Not only that, each deportee is entitled to a hearing. That’s the law and changing it will involve altering Supreme Court decisions.

For all these reasons, mass deportation would be inadvisable. Targeted deportation would be much more beneficial and could be used to dampen the enthusiasm for coming here in the first place.

Deportation.

An ugly word to too many people that sounds to many like how pre-1960’s people thought of sending people to the moon.

But as ugly and “impossible” as Deportation sounds, we have to start if even only as a trickle object lesson. Until we take Berlin Wall measures our borders will still be frightfully porous to millions (that measure might sound Draconian until a massive plague hits South America). Without Deportation in our quiver, legal threats on illegal homesteading is a joke. We will be wimps and accomplices to our own culture’s take over — and like virginity once it’s gone you can’t get it back. We have to coldly ignore the tidal wave of violins and teary media reports of illegals with little kiddies in tow waving bye-bye to friends and anchored relatives here as they’re herded into vans and buses back home. We got the wheels; we just need the will (spine) to roll ‘em. If this country could ship 20 million people over here from Africa in creaky wooden boats we can damn sure pack people in air conditioned buses to the (hopefully) new border fence gates and have them be the responsibility of the rightful government.

To say we will tolerate and accommodate “12 million” illegals within our borders is in one breath saying we’ll do such for 75 million later on because our will to check the situation wouldn’t have changed.

But by that time your vote won’t mean much.

James Greenidge
Queens, NY

Technically, even if the cloture bill fails today, there is one more chance to kill it, when the final vote on the bill comes up. However, realistically, the cloture vote today is going to decide the fate of the bill…….

I hate to agree with Senator Sellout McCain about anything now, but he correctly stated that other candidates that oppose the current bill should put forth their own proposals instead of only general opposition

I dunno, I listened to the last debate and I clearly heard one of the leading candidates, Mitt Romney, articulate a specific immigration reform plan. It was:

ENFORCE THE CURRENT LAW and SECURE OUR BORDERS FIRST.

works for me.