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As with the others, you have only assumptions concerning the illegals...but precisely zero understanding. There's no hardship that we can impose on them here (short of what Germany did in the 1930's e.g. sending armed brownshirts door-to-door demanding "papers, please") that would force them to go home - they're not going anywhere. Anyone who thinks otherwise has no clue just how strong their drive and determination is.
So if we can't get rid of them - and anyone who thinks we can is living in a dreamworld - then we have to look for other solutions. The Serenity Prayer applies, wherein one asks for the courage to change what can be changed, the patience to endure what can't be changed...and the wisdom to know the difference. Our illegal immigration problem canNOT be changed by "law and order" measures, as is pointed out in The Federalist (which is a conservative and libertarian website):
In 2015 the Border Patrol was more than five times as big as it was in 1995. In 1954, the average Border Patrol officer apprehended 953 illegal immigrants. In 2015, that number dipped to 17, as more officers are chasing fewer illegal immigrants. They set up road checkpoints 100 miles inland that are ineffective at apprehending illegal immigrants but guaranteed to harass American citizens, often depriving them of their Fourth Amendment rights.
The most infamous checkpoint is in the Arizona town of Arivaca, 11 miles from the Mexican border. Residents of this small town have been protesting it for years, and numerous alleged Border Patrol rights violations have escalated to the point of a federal lawsuit. Many local residents are so upset that they are running their own surveillance operation to monitor the Border Patrol. In 2008, 4 percent of Border Patrol agents were assigned to such checkpoints but apprehended a mere 2 percent of illegal immigrants detained in that year. That’s a poor showing, even for government work.
So if pumping more tax dollars and government workers into "law and order" isn't working, is the answer to pump even more tax dollars and government workers to try to make it work? Of course not. That's why we have to look for other answers.
Okay, you are clearly ignoring the content of my post. No, there is no reason to deploy your brown shirts. Just make their lives impossible here, and they will leave.
Illegals are given a front seat at the Government teat. That presents a lot of incentive to break the laws to get here, and even more to stay. Simply take those incentives away, and the illegals will leave on their own. If you had no ID, no job, no money, no Government assistance, no housing, and no prospect of getting anything mentioned, you would leave; and so would they. As long as the items on my list are handed out like candy, they will stay.