U.S. shifts approach to deporting illegal immigrants

U.S. shifts approach to deporting illegal immigrants

The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations. The changes focus enforcement on immigrants who have committed serious crimes, an effort to unclog immigration courts and detention centers.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-10-immigration10_ST_N.htm

The problem here is the disregard of Rule of Law for political gain, and the gaining of potential power of future voting block. And it is doing all the people involved, both citizen and Alien, alike, a disservice, for political gain.

Deporting illegal immigrants is possible. It has been done three times in resent history:

President Herbert Hoover, during the great depression, ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.

President Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after World War II to create jobs for returning veterans. I suppose they were allowed in because of a workforce shortage during WWII.

Most recently, beginning in 1954, the very popular and practical President Dwight Eisenhower successfully deported millions of illegal alien Mexican nationals in a program called “Operation Wetback”, which lasted two years. This was reportedly done to make more jobs available for World War II and Korean War veterans.

We now have a huge number of citizens out of work, including returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems we ought to be able to do the same thing today.

All that is required is that we actually enforce the law. There is nothing “ambiguous” or “complicated” about illegal immigration. It’s illegal, the people doing it know it, and they are therefore criminals who should be arrested and deported. The people that deliberately hire illegals should be arrested and jailed or fined heavily.