January 10, 2014 By Brian Kelly

Can the US Afford the Deportation Option?


“Can the US Afford the Deportation Option?” is chapter 19 of No Amnesty! No Way!, written by Conservative Action Alerts contributor Brian W. Kelly. Purchase a copy here.

The views represented are the author’s own.

Is the deportation option still OK?

Mac Johnson has done a lot of work trying to figure out whether we could really afford deporting illegal aliens if we chose to do so. Mac wrote a piece on the Web titled, “What Would it Cost to Deport Illegal Aliens?” Maybe one day he can write another piece that discusses reasons why it is OK and not politically incorrect for all of us to talk about deporting illegal aliens. Of whom should we be afraid?
Talking about it is the first step to getting it done. That’s why subtly the notion of deporting illegal foreign nationals is on the media politically incorrect list. Too bad! Talk, talk and talk some more about ridding our country of these foreign invaders and soon we will be able to do so. That is a much better alternative than merely accepting that they will always be among us, and we will pay every day for their subsistence and their good times.
I am not suggesting again that they are bad people. The bad guys are the businesses that made their lives miserable while the companies made millions on their sweat. The unions have encouraged politicians, and the dirty politicians are the perpetrators who let it happen. If it were up to me, I would deport them all—the unwelcome visitor as well as the person who lured them into America with the promise of a job. And, of course, the dirt bags that want their votes once they are registered as citizens in America. Does any of this seem like the motivations of Senators McCain and Schumer?
Deportation has been a US prerogative for centuries and now the pro-amnesty crowd thinks it should be unacceptable in practice and even in open speech. Instead, they recommend citizenship.
From having read the other parts of this book, you know that the government and union leaders, and corporations, and even large small businesses do their best to convince American citizens that they should accept illegal foreign nationals as part of the landscape and stop complaining.
They do not tell you that the only group not to gain in this scenario is Y-O-U. You represent a part of what can be called, “current American citizens.” Over 77% of the citizen population thinks as we do about illegal immigration. Let them earn their way in their own countries. What is wrong with that notion?
We’ll have none of it. We the normal everyday citizens of the country have been sold out by all of the important people in the above groups in America who comprise the ruling class. These groups all gain from illegal aliens being permitted to do as they please in our country. We the people, the regulars if you will, do not gain. We lose.
It’s time to put a big thumb to your nose to these people who gain at your expense. Tell them to find another back to break to have their dirty little secret mission fulfilled. This is our country. Let them try Russia to find good, cheap employees. Get out of America!
It is so asinine that it defies logic but the stakes are so high that there is institutionalized lying by the establishment to get Americans prepared and fully buffaloed. Can you see Press Secretary Carney telling the truth for the first time about the proposed amnesty? Me neither! He will never say anything about the affordability of deportation, either.
Our leaders want US to get ready for a country in which we must cohabitate with people who care nothing about the ideals of America. These ideals helped found our great nation. “We shall overcome.” They were good words when used in the Civil Rights Movement and they are good words now again in this the Citizens’ Rights Movement, which some have wisely labeled the TEA Party Movement.
On August 1, 2005, Mac Johnson, cited above, a columnist for Human Events Online wrote about the cost of deportation.
“Imagine that you came home tomorrow and found a stranger living in your home. Would you pay $148 to have him removed, or would you instead just legally adopt him and give him the run of the place to save the $148? The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank headed by liberal John Podesta and funded by billionaire interventionist George Soros, based in Washington, D.C., thinks the practical thing to do would be adopt the undocumented family member that broke into your home.”
Are these tough questions? I don’t think so. Congress has basically stated that we should choose to live with the illegals among us, rather than tell them to go home? This progressive group put forth the notion that it is better to take an occupier into your home (far better) than trying to rid yourself of the intruder.
Their argument for you having another mouth to feed in your household is that it will cost more to tell him to leave (deport him.) Their conclusion therefore is that the US should give amnesty to all 50 million illegal aliens in the country because; after all they had a tough time getting here. They smuggled themselves into our homeland and they have already been living with us all these years so, so what’s the big deal? Hah?
Johnson continued in his article:
“According to the study, which was dutifully reported by the Washington Post, and others interested, it would cost the Federal Government $41 billion per year over a five year period to take what they call the “draconian” step of actually enforcing our immigration laws.
“Let’s pretend, for just a moment that the ghost of the bloody Greek King Dracon is not laughing hysterically at the idea that being deported home in an air-conditioned bus is now considered “draconian.” And while we’re in fantasyland, let us also pretend that the $41 billion per year figure is even remotely accurate. The Federal Government has an annual budget of $2.34 trillion per year. [2005 figure] Our Gross Domestic Product is a staggering $12 trillion per year [2005 figure]. $41 billion would be just 1.7% of the Federal budget, and a miniscule 0.34% of our GDP.
“Yet the Center for American Progress [far left group] would have us believe that this sum is so far beyond us that we should instead surrender our country to whomever shows up in whatever numbers, rather than pay it. To put it in perspective, 0.34% would be $148 for someone earning $43,527 per year, the median family income in America. This is probably no more than what you paid for the locksets in your home.”
Forty-One billion is darn cheap!
The spin on the trauma caused to illegal foreign nationals by sending them back home for free is worthy of a big laugh.
Let’s look again in 2013 terms about that $41 billion per year figure. The feds’ budget is so huge that in 2013 it was again too big for the Congress and President to even create a budget.
For budget historians, 2010 is now looked on as the year of limitless Democratic spending as Pelosi and Reid and Obama controlled it all and though, according to the Constitution, a document progressives no longer like, they were supposed to turn in a budget, they had all the power and chose not to do so.
Instead, they decided to not go through the work so voters would not see how bad the financial situation was at the next election time. Even if I had not told you, you would agree that it sure seems that the progressives saw a checking account with no bottom, and they used it and used it and used it. So, to suggest there was no money for deportation in 2010 and there is none now in 2013 is quite disingenuous. Our spending is pushing $4 trillion for 2013. That’s a lot of zeros.
Any shiny little item in the store has already been purchased by the Obama Administration, paid for by the grandchildren of the people of the United States, and made available to anybody who has an affinity for the Muslim religion. At any rate, I am sure you agree that “limitless” is lots more than $41 billion per year.
Despite having no money in 2010, Obama and the 111th Congress spent IOU’s the whole time they were in full control, and then they kept on spending. In September 2010, you may recall, after the teacher and union bailout, the Administration pushed for another small stimulus for unions of a mere $50 billion. Political friends may not stay friends without payoffs. That $50 billion of course is $9 billion more than the $41 billion estimate required for deportation. So, do we have money to spend on good causes or not? More citizens would have benefited from the $41 billion than benefitted from the $50 billion. Here is a test: 1. Did you see the results of the $50 billion? Would you have seen the results of the $41 billion?
Independent thinkers saw this “stimulus” as a payoff so that no union member was forced to suffer any pain whatsoever from the Obama recession. The wrapper on this legislation had a big bow on it that said, “Thanks for your vote.” And, yes, Virginia, the taxpayers footed the bill for a $50 billion Obama campaign promise to unions. Is that corruption?
What a slap in the face for those of US, who actually work for a living, who have to pay for this nonsense! When there is a gift to unions from Obama, $50 billion is considered chump change. However, when it might take just $41 billion a year to give all illegal’s tickets to get home, that is a huge expenditure from a poor and destitute country. Thus, it is deemed unaffordable by the dictator in chief. Somebody is lying and lying repeatedly and if we are naming names it is the Obama Administration.
What might the next lie be? Besides the typical every election day scare for seniors that the “ghost of George Bush is going to take away Social Security income,” how about this for a little thicker prevarication. None of this story is close to being true so do not let any fear mongers get to you. The next lie may be that “if all of the illegal aliens are not granted amnesty post haste, Social Security will go broke in three days and Medicare will be taken over by the Kevorkian Institute of Happy Deaths.” Yes, on these last notes, I am definitely kidding.
Even though intended to be in jest, it is still chilling. I can see some goof in the US Health Department making a proposal to that effect some time soon. Perhaps Cass Sunstein? He is Obama’s all-everything regulation czar. Will he weigh in on that one?
Do you trust the government to do what is right for you and for your country? Do you trust the government to fill in a pot hole with cold patch correctly? How has the government been doing lately?

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Brian Kelly is a business owner and former assistant professor at Marywood University; he and his wife live in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Kelly ran for Congress and for the US Senate in his state and believes limited government brings liberty and freedom. Check his books out at www.checkoutking.com.

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