BTW Jonah, Ramesh, I don’t think it helps to harp on deportation. In an
ideal (well, MY ideal) world of immigration control, there would be no need
for deportation at all, just as there would be no need for a wall along the
border. (See my posting of earlier this morning titled “MR. BUSH, TEAR DOWN
THIS WALL!”)
Good law enforcement would ensure that there are no job opportunities in the
US for illegal aliens. They would then deport themselves! Of course, the
real world is never that neat, and in practice some deportations will always
be necessary; but still, by simply ENFORCING CURRENT LAW we could go a long
way towards reducing the illegal-immigrant population without mass
deportations or 15-foot walls.