Are things that bad in America that we can get undocumenteds, overstays and all those otherwise maligned by the Lou Dobbs crowd as “illegals” to self-deport?
Hey, they’re all outside Home Depot anyway, ICE can set up a “GO HOME Depot.”
Sounds like a bureaucratic cop-out: We’ll be nice to you if you leave on your own.
Actually, it’s about time ICE took that tack. Fear-based enforcement hasn’t worked for anyone.
Self-deportation shouldn’t be confused with “coddling the criminals.” It’s not amnesty either.
Instead, see this as ICE finally realizing that immigration overstays unless involved in criminal activity are not criminals. They’re bureaucratic nuisances who need their paperwork put in order, and failing that, need to be deported. Nicely. Civilly.
The feds got it wrong when the political winds politicized immigration into a nasty us versus them arrangement. they turned what should have been a traffic ticket type crime into a major ordeal.
Let’s hope self-deportation works with the normal folks who have these basic immigration issues. The bulk of these people aren’t devious drug dealers, gun runners or terrorists in training. They’re people when given a decent choice and treated with respect will stay within the law. And go home.
Given the number of overstays and the failing rate of enforcement, self-deportation sounds like a step in the right direction.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121744672797097895.html
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