Generally speaking, the stories have some truth, but the facts are skewed. Hoover intimidated about 121,000 illegals to depart; Truman did chase 3.4 million back across the border through deportation or threat of deportation; and Eisenhower ran off 2.1 million under "Operation Wetback." But, it is also generally accepted that all illegal aliens were removed from the country during those purges. As a matter of fact, the Mexican government actually sent troops to the border to keep Mexicans from crossing into the U.S.
With that background, let's examine the problem of 13 million or more, (probably much more), illegals in the country today. What do we do with them? To me, the argument that it is physically impossible to deport all of them due to cost and logistics is a bogus argument. They drain our national resources through welfare programs and medical expenses far more than the cost of rounding them up and deporting them. We have so much unemployment in the country right now that would be alleviated if those 13 million weren't here, and many of those unemployed could be used in temporary positions doing the actual moving of the illegals back to Mexico.
The next question is the anchor baby and the splitting up of families in order to accomplish all of this deportation. That question tugs at my heartstrings; although it is not our fault that illegals had kids born in the U.S. And although I disagree vehemently against the "anchor baby" philosophy, we're stuck with the problem and it seems to me that the only logical and humanitarian way to deal with it is to provide some accommodation... some way for the illegals to stay here IF they meet certain requirements above and beyond those placed on legal immigrants.
That's how I size the situation up: (1) deport all illegals who have a criminal history regardless of other facts; (2) deport all illegal aliens who do not have anchor babies here and (3) provide an avenue for the illegals with anchor babies with some avenue for staying... requirements which they must meet within a certain time period or be deported. To deport them and then allow them back after they meet those requirements is cumbersome and doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
But... and this is an important but... we have to seal the border off first. But, building a wall goes against my grain. Let's tell Mexico that they either have to build a wall, or that they have to put troops back on the border and stop illegal immigration, or we are going to pull all of our businesses out of Mexico and cut off our foreign aid to them.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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