It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: yuppa
If they refuse to take their people back just shoot them because we dont want them either. If no one wants them its better to eliminate them.
So you advocate the death penalty for illegal immigration? What happens when they cross over through New Mexico which has no death penalty? What about when they live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, or Oregon which don't have a death penalty? There's no way for the state in question to then shoot them.
Federal law only allows the death penalty for specific types of crime. Do you advocate expanding the federal governments power in order to add illegal immigration to the list of capital crimes? The average federal death penalty case currently takes 16 years to carry out. Do you want to start building jails to house illegal immigrants for 16 years before we execute them? Those 16 years cost way more than any drain on societies resources they create by living here.
What do we do if we round them all up, jail them for a decade, and then the political winds change and we give amnesty? Do you think that would be a good situation? It would be chaos on the streets.
Widespread executions are not the answer you're looking for.
originally posted by: yuppa
I d leave them in the desert and not waste a bullet if were talking about mexican illegals. You only shoot ones who keep trying to get back in i said earlier in the thread. Why should we have to take in people who we cannot punish by sending back home?
BE glad I am not in charge because the southern border would become a DMZ and all tresspassers would be shot.
It stotally unfair to refuse to take their citizens back. We dont have to accept them either.
I dont get it why your thought process is lets take them in since they cant go home.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: yuppa
I d leave them in the desert and not waste a bullet if were talking about mexican illegals. You only shoot ones who keep trying to get back in i said earlier in the thread. Why should we have to take in people who we cannot punish by sending back home?
Cool, so you wouldn't just execute them, you would violate the Eighth Amendment in order to make sure the punishment is extra cruel.
BE glad I am not in charge because the southern border would become a DMZ and all tresspassers would be shot.
What would you do about the other borders? Like I said before, the largest chunk of illegal immigrants enter the US through airports, not through the southern border.
Would you be comfortable with a southern border that keeps American citizens in? If it's a DMZ you're going to shoot people trying to leave just as often as you're going to shoot people trying to get in. Look at how many people died on each side of the Berlin wall. And now you want to bring that to America?
It stotally unfair to refuse to take their citizens back. We dont have to accept them either.
Why is it unfair? We may not want to accept them, but we have to put them somewhere. The US has signed human rights treaties on how to handle these sorts of situations. We can't just ship them all to Liberia without changing those agreements, which would then involve changing trade agreements and no one would want to trade with us due to our human rights record. Current law says that if we can't place someone in another country we have to let them stay here due to a lack of options.
I dont get it why your thought process is lets take them in since they cant go home.
What other option is there? We can't force another nation to take them and even if we could, most nations around the world have a much larger immigration crisis they're going to be dealing with for the next 2 decades.
The INS did not always timely process IRP cases, and as a result, was forced to detain criminal aliens released into INS custody from federal, state and county incarceration to complete deportation proceedings. In our review of 151 A-files judgmentally selected from a universe of 15,653 criminal aliens in INS custody, we identified $1.1 million in detention costs due to failures in the IRP process within the INS's control, and $1.2 in detention costs arising from factors beyond the INS's immediate control for a total of $2.3 million in IRP-related detention costs. Failures in the IRP process within INS's control included (1) incomplete or inadequate casework; (2) untimely requests for travel documents; (3) failure to accommodate for delays in the hearing process; (4) failure to timely initiate and complete IRP casework; and (5) the use of inappropriate removal procedures. Factors beyond the INS's direct control, included countries that, through design or incompetence, delay the issuance of travel documents and countries that refuse to take back their citizens
America is expelling illegal immigrants at nine times the rate of 20 years ago; nearly 2m so far under Barack Obama, easily outpacing any previous president.