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How many deportations is enough/possible?

DrVenture
in Off-Topic
There have been reports of anywhere from 300-600 deportations a day since February. Picking a number in-between (450) and multiplying by 365 days a year (including Christmas), we get 164,250. With approximately 12,000,000 in country, we can get to zero in 73 years. This is assuming no more re-entries.

I wonder what will be the cost of this, financially, socially and in labor terms? Expensive, no doubt. Maybe, "the wall" would have been cheaper, and more effective?

Disclaimer: I am fine with sound, humane immigration controls, just uncertain about this approach.

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  • CrashCrash
    edited June 12
    Even when immigrants come legally, like my wife, the process is FUBAR. We got married in her country. Before we could do that, we needed to be interviewed and checked-out by the U.S. Consul in her city.

    The U.S. Cebu Consulate webpage states it is open, 8-11 a.m. (BTW, I learned there is a bullshit distinction between a Consulate and a Consulate Agency Office.) Go early, I said. then we'll not be tied-up in there for the rest of the day.

    We arrived after 8:00. Anyone could enter the place, housed within a larger building. We waited. And waited. I went to the window and asked employees more than once: what is going on here? Open 8-11, but nothing is even being done...... Please talk to the Consul when he comes. That's what they repeated to me.That's all they would say.

    After 11:00, doors were closed. Consul shows up. Open 8-11? How utterly false and misleading is THAT? we did our stuff, then I asked him, WTF? He told me that HE was doing the U.S. gummint a FAVOR. He runs a business in Cebu,and was willing to take the PART-TIME position. But then the Consulate fucking "Agency" operates at HIS convenience.

    That is a picture of a completely screwed-up hot mess. Gummint needs a body in there, so those who need its services can be exceedingly inconvenienced and LIED TO. This was 2001. Has it all been fixed? I seriously doubt it. Come to think of it, I think that Cebu office was closed. Everyone has to go to Manila now. Superior planning and service for the U.S. public overseas. People just do not matter. Does not matter which Party rules.
  • DrVenture
    Our entire immigration system is in shambles. After government cuts, it cannot be getting better. We have no effective system for bringing in needed workers, skilled or unskilled. Now we are halting the best and brightest from entering our universities or for skilled labor shortages. H2A visas are shunned by farmers because it is unwieldy. And with 12,000,000 illegals already here, farmers do not want to pay the higher costs for legal H2A laborers.

    Illegals earn $1.50/hr average. H2A requirements are closer to $15/hr. Plus transportation and housing. With time limits.
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