How can we deport 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens? How many times have you heard this question on the news talkshows?

I have heard it dozens of times and I have done some thinking about it.

I have a plan and it won't cost billions of dollars per year as some have suggested. My plan will cost millions of dollars per year but that cost will be shared by each state. So the cost to each state will be minimal and the Federal Government should be able to help with most of it.

So what is my plan?

We build a facility in each state capable of holding 100 prisoners. This facility is reserved for those prisoners that have been determined to be illegal aliens or more appropriately criminal aliens. A few very large states like California may have more than one facility. Each facilty is no more than one days drive from the next.

These facilities are temporary holding facilities only, not regular jails. The purpose of each is to serve as a link in a chain. Daily prisoner transfers will take place from one link to the next. In some areas where the distances are short there may be more than one transfer per day.

The final links are on the border in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California. These facilities are supersized to hold around 1000 prisoners each. I calculate that there will be at least 5. Texas will have 2 due to its size.

We dedicate two judges to each of the smaller facilities to hold deportation hearings each day. The inmates will have due process of law and will be furnished an attorney or they can call their own. If it is determined that they are not illegal aliens then they will be released or transfered to another facility. If they have committed a serious crime then they will be transfered into the criminal justice system. If they are determined to be illegal aliens and their offenses are minor then they are scheduled for transfer to the next holding facility.

Each day the inmates will move one state closer to the border. Each facility will run a daily bus route to the next nearest facility. No state will have the burden to transport these illegals more than one days drive by bus. Once an inmate arrives at one of the supersites then they are transfered to ICE jurisdiction and at the next transfer time they are deported accross the border to the Mexican authorities.

The illegal aliens that do not originate from Mexico (and there are a lot of these) will be transfered through the pipeline to the nearest city with an international airport. The inmates will be turned over to ICE at this city and air transport will be arranged to take them to their country of origin.

The illegals are collected by local law enforcement agents during the normal course of their work. Traffic stops, drug busts, robberies, domestic violence, etc. Other agencies like ICE, FBI, and DHS could also contibute in the aprehension phase. It places no undue burden on any single city, state, or agency. It requires the purchase of 52 facilities and a similar number of buses. It requires the hiring of 110 judges and maybe double that number of guards for the holding facilities.

This plan sets up a pipeline to deport up to 5000 illegal aliens per day. That's a huge number and could put a real dent in the number of illegal aliens in the US. Over time, say 5 years or so, we would begin to see the number of illegal aliens drop. After 10 years the number of illegals will be a fraction of what we have today.

This plan would not eliminate illegal immigration but it does answer the question of how we could deport such large numbers as 12+ Million Illegal Aliens. The best part is that it won't cost us billions of dollars as the politicians have suggested.