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Today's Poll: Should undocumented immigrants with jobs and no arrests be allowed to stay in the U.S.?

By Howard B. Owens
mathew pribek

And employers who knowing employ them in defiance of our immigration law should be imprisoned and have their property confiscated.

Nov 21, 2014, 11:55am Permalink
C. M. Barons

It's estimated that the number of undocumented aliens affected by Obama's plan is 5 million. That's approximately the population of Atlanta, Georgia or Detroit, Michigan. For those who advocate deporting these people, here's a question... How much would it cost to corral and relocate, say, all the residents of Atlanta? How much do you want to pay for ethnic cleansing? In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 1.5 million people were evacuated from the flood zone. FEMA funded most of the evacuees at up to $4000 a pop. Additional funds were provided by the American Red Cross and Salvation Army amounting to hundreds-of-thousand dollars. The Katrina relocation was largely voluntary. Billions of federal dollars were spent on temporary housing and staging. Obviously the comparison does not forecast the cost of identifying, locating, detaining, processing and transporting a population that does not want to relocate- not to mention any appeals and costs incurred bribing another nation to accept an influx of millions of persons. Let's get beyond the emotions and political pandering and focus on the numbers. Is it worth a few hundred-billion to whiten the streets of America?

Nov 21, 2014, 3:09pm Permalink
mathew pribek

Whiten the streets? Sounds rather racist to me.

When they aren't employable, they won't be employed. Then they will leave and get in the line of legal immigrants. Deportation cost? Nearly zero.

Since when does a soveriegn nation have to accept anyone who succeeds in sneaking in and hanging on? Name one...

Nov 21, 2014, 6:57pm Permalink
Peter O'Brien

Ethnic Cleansing? Really?

These people are criminals and should be treated as such. They became criminals the minute they crossed the border.

Nov 21, 2014, 7:08pm Permalink
david spaulding

The undocumented immigrant has been here illegally forever, is this another White House diversion tactic ? Isn't the U.S. dropping million dollar bombs in Syria? Are the American people really upset about who is picking strawberries in Leroy and apples in Olcott? What's going on that new terrorist group called ISIS ? Is the U.S. making friends and arming them yet? Sending in military advisors ? This country has been killing people for so long that the people are immune to the ramifications until it hits home.

Nov 21, 2014, 9:44pm Permalink

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