Propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country. Those who register and return to their home country will face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit; those who do not return home will be, when caught, barred from future reentry for a period of 10 years. [ed note: emphasis mine]Stop what you are doing. Look around. Imagine if 1 in 15 people you see were kicked out of the country?
That is what you are looking to do if you support this policy. In this country of 300 million people, 20 million would be subject to enforcement under this policy.
Rounding 1 in 15 people up, detaining them, and then shipping them elsewhere is just not something that will happen without major human rights issues and potentially worse. I have said this before and will say it again- you will not be able to remove 1 out of every 15 residents from this country without re-creating the Great Terror from the 1930's police-state Soviet Union.
If enacted, this policy would potentially lead to one of the greatest struggles in US history since the Civil War. Iraq would be nothing compared to forcibly removing 1 in 15 residents from their homes and kicking them out of the country. [ed note: notice, I say "residents" not citizens. just a friendly reminder that although they are not citizens, they still do live here in homes like you and me]
Gawd, I hate bumper-sticker politics of fear.
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