The solution to Illegal Immigration: Attrition through Enforcement...It Works

August 1st, 2007 at 06:59am Mike McGarry 214

 “People don’t break into an amusement park if they can’t get on the rides.”

                   —Mike Cutler, former INS Senior Special Agent, on illegal immigration

To Mr. Cutler’s words, I would add:  “…:and they don’t stay in the park if they can no longer get on the rides.”     

There is a false set of choices to solving illegal immigration being perpetuated by the illegal-alien amnesty crowd  They claim that our only options are to institute a draconian and implausible mass rounding up of illegals or to give them amnesty, or its euphemistic equivalents (e.g., “regularization,” “earned legalization”). Among those spreading this nonsense are the worse president in U.S. history, Jorge Bush; the notoriously fowl-mouthed presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Ted Kennedy, the killer of Mary Jo Kopechne. Quite the cabal.

There is, however, a realistic, effective, middle-ground third solution: Attrition through enforcement. Attrition through enforcement postulates that if all the immigration laws are enforced, including employer sanctions, illegal immigrants will self deport. (For a through discussion of attrition through enforcement, see http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html )

Key to effective attrition through enforcement is that cities, counties and states across the country are instituting their own ordinances and laws to deal regionally and locally with illegal immigration, filling the void left by a shamefully abdicating federal government.

DA King lives in Georgia . He is a former U.S. Marine whose otherwise imposing physical presence is offset with, disarming dimples in his cheeks and a prominent affability.  DA is the proprietor of The Dustin Inman Society:  http://www.thedustininmansociety.com/, and he is the consummate citizen activist.  The State of Georgia has enacted what some consider the toughest immigration legislation in the country, and DA was an indefatigable promulgator of that legislation. As a result, illegals in Georgia are now self-deporting from Georgia in droves. ( See video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxe1WO27B_I )

And if there is any question about the efficacy of attrition through enforcement in other parts of the country, please take note of these samplings of recent newspaper stories, including one from the Rocky Mountain News:

Immigration Traffic appears down in the state: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5650671,00.html

Worried, frustrated immigrants headed back home to Brazil : http://www.townonline.com/homepage/x1983776459

http://www.thedustininmansociety.com/

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