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January 24, 2012
What Romney Means By 'Self Deportation' As A Solution To Illegal Immigration
Topics: Political News and commentariesFor some reason or another, some folks seem confused about Romney's use of the term "self deportation" to describe his simple solution for dealing with over 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country. For those that just don't get it, his strategy focuses on the fact that most illegal immigrants are coming to the United States for jobs. If we make jobs harder to obtain illegally then not only will fewer come, more will leave.
As Romney put it last night, "people decide they can do better by going home because they can't find work here ... they don't have legal documentation to allow them to work here... ."
James Antle, III explains with more detail at The American Spectator:
When Mitt Romney suggested "self-deportation" as a solution to illegal immigration at last night's debate, his comments were met with confusion and a certain amount of derison. A few commentators pointed out that when the federal government gave 475,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in and effectively self-deport, they were only three takers.Don't expect Democrats and the La Raza crowd to like it ... they want amnesty, period, so they can convert illegal aliens to Democrat voters.But Romney isn't proposing a repeat of the ill-fated Schedule Departure program. Rather he is drawing on the attrition through enforcement strategy developed by think tanks like the Center for Immigration Studies and implemented by Arizona and other states (albeit over the objections of the Obama-led federal government). CIS executive director Mark Krikorian has described it as an approach to change incentives for illegal immigrants through verification and targeted enforcment:
Shrink the illegal population through consistent, across-the-board enforcement of the immigration law. By deterring the settlement of new illegals, by increasing deportations to the extent possible, and, most importantly, by increasing the number of illegals already here who give up and deport themselves, the United States can bring about an annual decrease in the illegal-alien population, rather than allowing it to continually increase. The point, in other words, is not merely to curtail illegal immigration, but rather to bring about a steady reduction in the total number of illegal immigrants who are living in the United States. The result would be a shrinking of the illegal population to a manageable nuisance, rather than today's looming crisis.
Posted by Hyscience at January 24, 2012 3:33 PM
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