DAVID MARCUS: If we can’t deport illegals, here's how we can make it impossible to stay

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DAVID MARCUS: If we can’t deport illegals, here's how we can make it impossible to stay
David Marcus

There’s an old saying when a bar is about to close for the night that goes something like, "you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here." It pretty much sums up how Americans feel about people in our country illegally, even if our courts won’t let President Trump deport them.

It's truly incredible. President Biden allowed millions of illegals to pour across the southern border en masse and the courts did nothing. Now, in order to kick them out, the same judicial system wants each and every one to get a hearing, a process that would likely require not decades, but centuries.

To get a notion of the scale here, some estimates say Biden let 10 million people enter the county illegally. Were they to stand in a single file line, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles.

Of course, what this really means is that if the courts get their way, and every person must have a scheduled hearing, then almost everyone gets to stay indefinitely.

This didn’t happen when Democratic presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or even Open Borders Biden himself deported illegals. Yet somehow, now that it's Trump, the rules are entirely different. Never mind that polling now consistently shows growing majorities of Americans want all undocumented aliens booted, and not just those with criminal records.

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-we-cant-deport-illegals-heres-how-we-can-make-impossible-stay

[massadvj]

There are plenty of people they can deport right now without a hearing, including convicted criminals and folks who failed to show up for their hearings. Homeland Security can worry about the rest later. As for denying federal assistance of any kind to illegals, I am all for it. They should also deny federal assistance to any government jurisdiction that grants sanctuary or provides public assistance to illegals.

All that said, there are a lot of people who are currently in "limbo" thanks to the backlog of immigrants who need to be processed. It takes a year right now for someone to get an appointment for a simple tourist visa from any Latin American country.  That just encourages more people to seek out other means to visit friends and family. I myself am currently assisting a family from Colombia, a woman with two children whose Puerto Rican husband died 8 months ago. As a widowed spouse of an American, she is entitled to residency, but is still waiting for her paperwork to be processed. She can't legally work until that happens, so how is she supposed to survive while she waits for our bureaucracy to function? There are literally millions of such cases that need to be adjudicated. It is disingenuous to say "come in legally" when the system to come legally is so clogged it becomes impossible. It forces law-abiding people to become de facto criminals.

I was hoping a Republican administration would make this system more efficient, but so far I have not seen it.  The courts muck up the works so that once a case is adjudicated, there can be appeals, etc.  But something needs to be done to separate the wheat from the chaff.  Sooner or later an American citizen or legal resident is going to get caught in this net, and due process is going to be denied to someone who is entitled to it. We always knew this deportation effort was going to be resisted by every means at the disposal of the Democrats. The party's very existence depends on these people staying put and becoming voters.

But the rule of law should still matter to us Republicans in spite of our MAGAfication.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Send in the scoops ...



... follow the welfare payments.

[Fishrrman]

I read the excerpt above -- and there's nothing about HOW it could be made "impossible".

But I'll go further and say that whatever they try just isn't going to work for a large number of illegals (especially those from Africa, Haiti, etc.).

That's because no matter what benefits you deny them here, the conditions they face by REMAINING here are far, FAR, FAR better than those they faced "at home".

They'll tough it out for as long as it takes.

The only alternative, if you really, REALLY want them out is:
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[Knuckles Neanderthal]

I read the excerpt above -- and there's nothing about HOW it could be made "impossible".

But I'll go further and say that whatever they try just isn't going to work for a large number of illegals (especially those from Africa, Haiti, etc.).

That's because no matter what benefits you deny them here, the conditions they face by REMAINING here are far, FAR, FAR better than those they faced "at home".

They'll tough it out for as long as it takes.

The only alternative, if you really, REALLY want them out is:
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I agree. What will happen is that an underclass/slaveclass/criminalclass will develop. It won't be good.
We've got to figure a way to get rid of a few million that came in during the 4 years of the insurrection of OBiden.

[mountaineer]

Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
The notion that you can't deport people while giving them due process and an opportunity to contest their removal is belied by the fact that Obama actually had no problem deporting people.
9:56 PM · Apr 15, 2025