Illegal Immigration: Attrition Through Enforcement is Working; Acquitted ICE Agent Cory Voorhis is Not Working

April 15th, 2008 at 04:23pm Mike McGarry 214

Illegal Immigration:Attrition-through-Enforcement is Working; Acquitted ICE Agent Cory Voorhis is Not Working

"They [Americans] know that the idea that you're going to deport 12 million [illegal aliens] is ridiculous, that we're not going to be devoting all our law enforcement resources to sending people back"—Barack Obama

"You’ll have to explain to me how you round up 12 million people. There are not 10 million pairs of handcuffs in America." —John McCain

“It would be an unworkable scheme to try to deport 12 million people, which you have to have a police state to try to do." —Hillery Clinton

"What would a policy of attrition through enforcement look like? It would combine an increase in conventional enforcement...with expanded use of verification of legal status at a variety of important points, to make it as difficult and unpleasant as possible to live here illegally."--Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies  

(Mark Kirkorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, and Cory Voorhis, the ICE agent who was just found not guilty in the cause célèbre federal criminal case in U.S. District Court Denver, will be interviewed on the Con Games--KNFO, 106.1, 8:00am-10:00am--on Wednesday, April 16.)

Forgive them Father, for Barack, Hillery and John know not what they say. That’s because when they make the kinds of statements about the impossibility if deporting illegal aliens, they present a false choice: Can’t deport ‘em, so let’s just enact the mother of all amnesties, amnesty number eight. Remember, the 1986 amnesty was sold to the American people as a “one-time-only” amnesty that would include adequate and ongoing enforcement. Amnesties don’t work.

There is a third way—a middle way, some say—to deal with illegal immigration: Attrition through Enforcement. Simply put, attrition-though-enforcement says that we need only enforce out existing immigration laws and illegals would self-deport, causing a downsizing of the illegal population in the U.S. by 50 percent in five years. Indeed, it’s already happening. In Georgia and Oklahoma, states which have enacted strict immigration laws against employment of illegals, illegals are self-deporting in droves, sometimes heading back home, sometimes migrating more lenient states. It’s the same thing with municipalities. Cities that have, for example, enacted ordinances that fine landlords who have been shown to knowingly rent to (harbor) illegals are getting the same results. Attrition-through-enforcement works.

Mark Krikorian originated the phrase “attrition through enforcement.” As the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies he has written extensively on the subject.  Mr. Krikorian has testified before the U.S. congress on the attrition concept and he also has been a debate panelist speaking in favor of attrition through enforcement.(View the Boston University Great Debate 2007: Can Stricter Law Enforcement at the Border and the Workplace Solve the U.S. Immigration Problem? �
The case against Cory Voorhis exposed so much about corruption and arrogance of government, including witholding Cory's paycheck and his health benefits while he faced with a couple hundred thousand dollars in legal costs, it's no wonder the jury took what was probably a record time, two-and-a-half hours, in a federal case to find Cory Voorhis NOT GUILTY!  The U.S. government has all but broken this otherwise distinguished public servent. Cory still does not have his job back, and it is questionable if he will. Tune in to Con Games and hear Cory share the emotional story of what it feels like to have to full force of the federal government try to crush him.            

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