he Trump administration has stepped up apprehensions of suspected illegal immigrants considerably in recent weeks, and the federal government has expanded its deportation efforts well beyond targeting the criminal aliens who were the primary focal point during the campaign. The administration has instead turned to raiding job sites and other areas where immigrants are known to be found, in hopes of further increasing total apprehension numbers.
But even as the administration and ICE further expand these efforts, the administration is unlikely to succeed in carrying out deportations at levels seen during the Bush or Clinton years, or even what was seen during the Obama years.
Part of this is due to the fact that the administration has effectively closed the border, and so there are fewer apprehensions to be made near and around the border itself. These apprehensions are presumably “low-hanging fruit,” so to speak, for agents. This means that ICE agents will have to do much more work—not a favorite activity for government employees—and look to neighborhoods and the private sector to find and apprehend potential illegal aliens.
Another factor bringing down total numbers of deportations may be the rise of so-called sanctuary cities which limit state and local agencies in offering cooperation or coordination with federal agents. …
Self-Deportation Is the Most Reasonable Option
As the numbers show, the Trump administration simply is not going to deport even half of the 18 million illegal aliens in the United States via apprehensions by federal agents. Moreover, if the administration succeeds in deporting the violent, criminal illegal aliens, that will increasingly leave the peaceful immigrants. If the administration also succeeds in ensuring that illegal aliens cannot collect taxpayer funded social benefits of any kind, that will then leave mostly only the productive aliens. The removal of pathways to citizenship for illegal aliens will further winnow down illegal alien immigration to those content with being non-political, non-citizen residents.
Beyond that, efforts to forcibly remove the peaceful, productive aliens will antagonize the private sector and people minding their own business. To actually remove a majority of the 18 million or so illegal immigrants would require an huge increase in federal police power and an enormous expansion of federal meddling in the everyday operations of countless private residential areas and countless private employers.
While MAGA activists may not have any problem with this sort of thing, it’s likely that much of the population in such cases—will find it tiring to be incessantly asked to prove one’s citizenship and provide “papeles” as federal agents roam parking lots and apartment complexes looking to round up one more mechanic or janitor who hasn’t filled out the right government forms.
This is why efforts to encourage self-deportation are so important. After all, reducing federal programs for social benefits is always good, regardless of its effect on immigration. Moreover, the more immigrants are cut off from the public purse, and from citizenship benefits overall, the less relevant they will be to political life. Those immigrants looking for a free payday, or looking to get access to the American voting booth, will have to look elsewhere to exploit the local population. Many illegal aliens will elect to stay, of course. But, only those who are able to be support themselves economically—either individually or as a family unit—will be able to make a go of it. In this respect, they’d be no different from generations of earlier immigrants who arrived before the advent of the welfare state.
Yes, the only real way to make deportations work is self-deportations! This method requires going back to the past methods of immigration where people had to support themselves without aid from the taxpayer teat. Cutting off all access to stolen public funds, no birthright citizenship and no other freebies will be the incentive to self-deport. We all know the federal workers agents are not big on doing the hard work, so, perhaps we shouldn’t expect it from them. Those that are providing for themselves, as in the past, should be as welcome as our forefathers were.
milkstolen resourcestaxpayer funds. If the states wish to continue suckling the illegals, since money is fungible, DJT should cut them off from ALL federal funding and concentrate his deportation efforts in those places, with ICE, National Guards and marines.