Quote:Oh, so you are ok with the undocumented workers staying here so long as they don't commit crimes?


That's kinda where I'm at.


But if that's the case, why do you need a massive deportation force? The police will catch those criminals and we'll deport them...


No need for tripling the number of ice agents if your just doin that.

 

I'm okay with them being deported whenever they are caught.  If they are pulled over for speeding and an officer suspects they are here illegally, immigration should be called to investigate.  If they are found to be here illegally they should be set up with a NTA with an immigration judge to decide their fate.  If they fail to appear, then they are deported in absentia and the next encounter with them should be jail until they can be removed.  With the IJ at least if they are deported they would be given time to get their affairs in order before leaving the country.

 

You need a massive deportation force because we are currently unable to deport the ones we want to deport and the numbers would be 10 fold with Trump as president.  These people are walking across the border and turning themselves in to Border Patrol Agents because they know that only roughly 5% of them are actually getting deported under current policies.

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