DaveDodo007 wrote:Brian Peacock wrote:Just 11 million deportations, taking an axe to the tax code, and a bit of brick laying to go.
Enter the country legally or get the fuck out. Reward hard/smart working people, the horror. Create jobs, ho noes, FDR will be turning in his grave (he won't.)
Trump promised that 11 million people will be swiftly deported. Think about that for a moment. 11 million people. Aside from the improbable logistics of such an operation, how many of those 11 million have children who are American citizens? If even half of them have at least one child that's over 5 million children left without at least one parent. How many children might be left with no parents? If even half of those those children have both their parents deported that's 2.5 million homeless children without parents or a means of support. Is the state going to take them in, or are they supposed to make their own way in the world, somehow? If even half of those kids are taken into a home, either by a relative, or fostered, or placed in some sort of care, that's still 1.25 million children left over. How many have to starve to death, or die of exposure, or end up in detention or being exploited and abused before this becomes a problem, let alone a national disgrace? And I'm being generous with my assumptions here.
As I said, this is aside from the improbable logistics of such an operation which would involve, hiring a huge number of officials and training them, finding buildings, setting up IT and communication systems, managing all that, developing systems for identifying and locating targets, organising transport, drawing up rotas, setting quotas, sending out the snatch squads, massively ramping up the court system, which needs expensive judges and lawyers, court officials, admin support, buildings to put them in, canteens, energy, staff accommodation, secure containment facilities, toilets, bog rolls, guards, uniforms, guns, ammo, shackles. The list goes on and on... Would there be an appeals procedure for those snatched by mistake? Would people be able to apply for citizenship or sponsorship under certain circumstances? Not to mention
the economic impact of taking 11 million working people out of the economy, because undocumented immigrants don't get any handouts and most of them are workers, not criminals, or even criminally minded, well not yet anyway, and they buy stuff, and rent places. What would the state do to those who tried to hide or shelter their friends, their colleagues, their employees, their children's nannies? Would that be a criminal matter, and if so, what do you do with all those people? Build even more prisons, impose fines, disqualify voting rights or deport them as well?
And if all that came to pass, what would America have become? Draw your own conclusions.
Yeah, it's easy to say "fuck 'em" isn't it? After all, it's not you is it - it's somebody else - the nominal other, the spic, the wop, or as Trump's rhetoric had it, it's only rapists, criminals, and drug dealer. Saying "Fuck 'em, it's their own fault for being illegal aliens" is easy. Just demean and dehumanise the other and it absolves one of any need to actually think about them as people or the consequences of the action - it makes the actions of the state seem so clear cut, so straight-forward, so simple. Too simple.
