"12 Million" Illegal Aliens Can Be Removed Simply...Just Enforce the Law!

I've been saying it for two years, the illegal immigration issue is the defining issue of our generation and our leaders keep telling us there is nothing they can do about the "12 million" (more like 30 million) who are already here.

Funny how the words "can't be done" come so easily from the tongues of our politicians these days. Ike Eisenhower managed it way back in the 1950's by instituting "Operation Wetback."

By moving all INS officials with connections to the businesses using this source of labor out of the border states and replacing them with determined opponents of illegal immigration and by using a large mobilization of state police within the border states, the Eisenhower Administration arrested 30,000 illegal aliens. NOt very many you say? True, but allow me to finish. The results of these arrests was a diaspora of more than half a million Latinos back across the border.

As this article proves, it is still possible to make such a mass migration occur again simply by enforcing our laws. From the New York Times:

February 12, 2008
Arizona Seeing Signs of Flight by Immigrants
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
PHOENIX — The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer clients.

While it is too early to know for certain, a consensus is developing among economists, business people and immigration groups that the weakening economy coupled with recent curbs on illegal immigration are steering Hispanic immigrants out of the state.

The Arizona economy, heavily dependent on growth and a Latino work force, has been slowing for months. Meanwhile, the state has enacted one of the country’s toughest laws to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, and the county sheriff here in Phoenix has been enforcing federal immigration laws by rounding up people living here illegally.

“It is very difficult to separate the economic reality in Arizona from the effects of the laws because the economy is tanking and construction is drying up,” said Frank Pierson, lead organizer of the Arizona Interfaith Network, which advocates for immigrants’ rights and other causes. But the combination of factors creates “ a disincentive to stay in the state.”

Oklahoma has recently seen the same thing with their rigorous enforcement of employment laws.

The illegal immigration problem can be solved relatively easily and quickly with the building of a fence and the enforcement of hiring laws here in the United States. All that is required is a Congress and President with the will to do so.

Short of that, it is time for the states to act on their own, just as Oklahoma and Arizona have.

The only problem without a solution, is the one that no one wants to solve.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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