Thread: Time overdue to try attrition through enforcement

D.A. King: Time overdue to try attrition through enforcement
Published: 12/07/2007
By D.A. King

On the illegal immigration crisis, it is likely time - again - for a reminder about false choices and an as yet untried and reasonable solution.

The transparent argument from those who will never relent on the amnesty-again agenda is that because we cannot round up and deport more than 20 million illegal aliens by sundown tomorrow (false choice "A"), the only other option is to legalize them as part of some contrived and disingenuous "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" program (false choice "B").

I know what the reader must be thinking: "Why is he bringing that up again? The amnesty attempt of 2007 was defeated in the U.S. Senate in June!"

Here is why: Just weeks after this year's attempt at forcing the now not-so-trusting American people to accept the legalization option, another nationwide push began to prepare them for the next one - but not until the elections are over.

But, for the "legalization now, legalization tomorrow and legalization forever" crowd, there is a rather inconvenient truth emerging in news stories from around the country.

Nearly every week Americans paying attention can read news reports from places where the law is actually being enforced about illegal aliens giving up and leaving for more hospitable places to look for a better life, either in other states here or back to their home countries.

Simply put, again: Enforcement works.

For many in the amnesty industry, the fervent hope is that either many Americans don't realize that the legalization option was tried - and failed - more than 21 years ago, or they can be convinced that Albert Einstein was wrong when he remarked that one definition of insanity was "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

It is past time that pundits, editors and candidates for political office begin to recognize and discuss the third and seldom-mentioned option: Attrition through enforcement.

It doesn't take another Einstein to recognize that the idea of gradual attrition of the illegal population through the enforcement of existing laws while at the same time stopping illegal entries by securing our borders - at any cost - will work. It simply takes good old-fashioned common sense.

For decades, common sense seems to be in short supply when it comes to illegal employment and the illegal immigration it produces. Illegal immigration isn't just wrong because it is illegal - it is illegal because it is wrong.

The national disaster created by the fact that Washington has failed to secure American borders or enforce our immigration and employment laws did not happen overnight. It has taken more than 30 years to get where we are today.

We should all stop looking for an overnight solution. There isn't one. It may take as long to solve the problem as it did to create.

Not many can argue that border security is not a fundamental duty of the federal government. Neither can anyone argue against the equal application of American laws. Put the two logical concepts together and we can watch the illegal immigration problem begin to shrink instead of grow with each passing day.

Illegal immigration has been labeled by many in the media as the "third rail of politics." But that's not the case on the streets of America or at office water-cooler conversations. The American people rightly expect the issue to be addressed with something more than the empty rhetoric of the last two decades.

Candidates for office - on all levels - should heed the common sense of the American people and their ever increasing education on the topic and realize that a growing number of voters will not accept the false choices being offered on illegal immigration.

American voters should demand that we stop the insanity of repeating the mistakes of the past and expecting different results. Enthusiastic enforcement of the existing laws seems to be the only thing we haven't tried. A slow but steady decrease in the illegal population is the obvious reasonable and workable solution.

This longtime American will be listening closely for the concept of attrition through enforcement to be one of the first things mentioned in political candidate's campaign speeches.

I suspect that I will be in a very large group of common-sense voters.
http://www.mdjonline.com/content/index/ ... 00189.html

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Cobb-based non-profit coalition dedicated to educating the public on illegal immigration. On the Web: www.theDustinInmanSociety.org.

Enforcement Works!!!

Group estimates 100 illegal immigrants leaving every day
By DANIEL GONZALEZ
The Arizona Republic

PHOENIX - Illegal immigrants are starting to leave Arizona months in advance of a new state law that will require employers to verify the employment eligibility of their workers.

The departures are drawing cheers from immigration hard-liners and alarm from business owners already seeing a drop in sales.

At least several hundred immigrants have left since Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano signed the bill July 2, according to interviews with illegal immigrants, immigrant advocates, community leaders and real-estate agents. The number departing is expected to mushroom as Jan. 1, the date the law takes effect, draws closer. There are an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona.

Some immigrants are moving to other states, where they think they will have an easier time getting jobs. Others are returning to Mexico.
"I would say we are losing at least 100 people a day," said Elias Bermudez, founder of Immigrants Without Borders and host of a daily talk-radio program aimed at illegal immigrants.

Abel Ledezma, a 31-year-old telephone technician from Mexico, has a work permit, but his fiancee, a waitress, is an illegal immigrant. Ledezma put his house on the market after the governor signed the bill and the two plan to move to Albuquerque, N.M., which Ledezma thinks is more welcoming of illegal immigrants.

"I feel like the people's attitudes towards not only immigrants but also Hispanics has become very rude" in Arizona, he said.

Immigration hard-liners say the exodus is a sign the employer-sanctions law is already working. It is aimed at shutting off the job magnet by imposing harsh penalties on employers caught knowingly hiring unauthorized workers. Violators face a 10-day suspension of their business license for a first offense and could lose their license for a second offense.

"Shut off the lights, and the crowd will go home," said Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, the main architect of the new law. "I hope they will all self-deport.''

Immigrant advocates, business groups and analysts say the exodus will make it more difficult to find workers and dampen the state's economy. A dozen business groups, including the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the law on the grounds it is unconstitutional.

Arizona's labor market is already tight with just 3.7 percent unemployment in July, according to the state Department of Economic Security. Illegal workers leaving the state could make the labor market tighter, which could lead to higher wages but also higher costs for goods and services, said Don Wehbey, the department's senior economist.
There are labor shortages because of a native-born population that is aging and more highly educated and therefore doesn't produce enough low-skilled workers to meet growing demand, said Judith Gans, program manager for immigration policy at the University of Arizona's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. As a result, illegal immigrants are doing jobs that Americans won't do or aren't available to do, she said. "If these workers leave, it's going to hurt the economy and put the state at an economic disadvantage with other states," Gans said.

Some areas of Arizona's economy already are taking a hit because of the hiring law.

Real-estate agent Guadalupe Sosa said illegal immigrants are putting their homes up for sale when there is already an abundance of houses on the market.

What's more, many more are not buying homes because they are worried about losing their jobs under the law.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/61804.php

Attrition Through Enforcement
A Cost-Effective Strategy to Shrink the Illegal Population
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back406.html

give them all 6 months depart... open up the FEMA Camps for 10 years hard labor picking maters and taters for those that dont self deport

Politicians you need to be side by side in the prison camps supervising the harvest

"give them all 6 months depart... open up the FEMA Camps for 10 years hard labor picking maters and taters for those that dont self deport

Politicians you need to be side by side in the prison camps supervising the harvest"

NO WAY......NO EXCEPTIONS. Why should we have to tolerate them for even 6 months? Not only that, but the taxpayers would have to pay for the camps!!!!

ATTRITION ONLY - leave or suffer the consequences (no job, no public dole)

In other words "STOP THE INSANITY" Do something different if you are going to expect a different outcome.... Oh right you don't want a different outcome! But "we the people" and "We the people" are the only ones that matter here, since in this country the "MAJORITY RULES" and I'd say 80% of the country is the Majority, or maybe some of you need to use those college seats being taken up by illegals and take a refresher course in Mathmatics.


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illegal immigrants are putting their homes up for sale

The lenders who were foolish enough to sell them houses will find out just how dumb they were and I've heard of illegals re-financing, taking out the money, and then leaving the house.

Hillary continually lies and spouts the false choices of mass amnesty and mass deportation. She is shameless in her reckless lust for power.

Originally Posted by Populist

Hillary continually lies and spouts the false choices of mass amnesty and mass deportation. She is shameless in her reckless lust for power.

You know "Populist" she has had a good teacher when it comes to lieing.

Populist wrote:
Hillary continually lies and spouts the false choices of mass amnesty and mass deportation. She is shameless in her reckless lust for power.


You know "Populist" she has had a good teacher when it comes to lieing.

I did not have sexual Relations with That woman