A **lot** of emails along these lines (this particular one, I note, from
TEXAS): “Mr. Derbyshire, on the ‘can’t do it’ sentiments of some of our
fellow citizens, let me say this. If we were really to make an effort to
deport illegals, I’d volunteer to drive one of the buses. I’m sure there are
plenty more who feel the same way. My wife is a legal immigrant here and she
is even more strident.”
Ah, Sir, it is precisely we legal immigrants who are the most strident. As
a friend of mine, another Brit import, likes to say: “We immigrants are
here to do the dirty jobs Americans won’t do. Like, calling for the
enforcement of federal laws…”