A Counterintuitive Perspective on Deportations
American Thinker,
by
Vince Coyner
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
8/6/2025 5:25:40 AM
Since Donald Trump has begun the push to deport illegal aliens, we’ve seen stories about families being broken up, and people losing their homes or being deported without having been arrested for crimes other than illegal entry. The stories are framed sympathetically to wring American hearts, but they don’t change the debate because you can’t run a country based on emotional anecdotal narratives.
Still, that’s exactly what Democrats want the country to do. They’re suggesting that most of the 40 million illegal aliens they invited into the country over the last quarter century are doctors, engineers, or saints, and, therefore,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/6/2025 6:05:26 AM (No. 1987080)
"because you can’t run a country based on emotional anecdotal narratives."
That sums it up. And it also sums up why Democrats don't want people educated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/6/2025 7:09:12 AM (No. 1987118)
It is impossible and impractical to give 40 million illegals full deportation court hearings. That is exactly why Democrats and their judicial plants are insisting on it. Deport only those that have committed crimes other than coming here illegally. Simultaneously remove birthright citizenship and pass a law that being present in the country without proper authorization precludes any and all paths to citizenship and voting rights.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
privateer 8/6/2025 7:58:25 AM (No. 1987147)
and! preclude all access to any government handouts; plus a force multiplier for any criminal acts, right down to parking tickets and overdue library books. Income tax evasion nets them hard time at hard labor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/6/2025 8:28:02 AM (No. 1987161)
End NOW congressional representation based upon occupancy instead of citizenship and tax remittances sent back to Mexico and other countries of origin so heavily that Mexico, in particular, will regret having sent its future abroad.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JackBurton 8/6/2025 8:43:50 AM (No. 1987173)
This is a doggone great list of to-do's. I especially like the cut-off-all-taxpayer-funding and 'we fix your broken arm and put you on a plane' approach on medical care. As long as no tax dollars are going to the churches, and they have to pony up their own cash for illegals, I think they would get sympathy press if they got prosecuted.... NGO's that are liberal (Soros) groups in church clothing excepted.
And if Biden could get banks to defund second amendment businesses and conservatives, they sure has anything could get them to determine legal status before giving credit cards, mortgages, and bank accounts. Here's an idea: Let the banks do all that stuff but put that 50% remittance tax on the accounts and give half of that to the banks. They are more likely to enforce that if they have skin in the game.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/6/2025 8:51:34 AM (No. 1987180)
Amen, brother!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 8/6/2025 9:48:17 AM (No. 1987208)
It doesn’t matter if they’re “fine, upstanding” people. They’re NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. They broke the law by coming here. They’re breaking the law by staying here. They’re breaking the law by working here. They ALL have to leave, one way or another. If they’re from Mexico, put them on the bridge at El Paso and point them toward Juarez, and tell them to start walking. If they’re from somewhere else, put them on a plane to El Salvador and let them find their own way home from there.
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Add another to-do to the list:
No K-12 education for illegal children. They are draining resources from our own children and lowering standards within classrooms. Some can't read or write in their native language, making it much more difficult to teach them to read/write a second language. Many of these illegals come from countries where they have to pay for K-12 education, why should they get it free here? Plus, legally, once we educate these children, they can't legally work here, so why?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/6/2025 11:12:11 AM (No. 1987277)
Immigration hearings for illegals are not full court hearings They are "administrative hearings" during which a magistrate determines whether the person has a legitimate reason to remain. Until Biden overwhelmed the system with his multimillions of illegals, these were done at the border. Most failed and were deported forthwith. Skip the emotion. Deport them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/6/2025 11:21:15 AM (No. 1987280)
We know the caravans a few years ago were Soros projects. His people were even identified handing out prepaid cash cards to the lines of illegals working their way up to the border. (Soros should lose his citizenship and his organization should be branded as terrorist for its anti-American activities over years.)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kiwinews 8/6/2025 11:24:09 AM (No. 1987281)
For one thing, it's REPATRIATION not just deportation.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/7/2025 5:50:21 AM (No. 1987554)
8. Make English the "Official Language" of the United States. No more Written Forms or Aural Messaging will be transmitted in Spanish, or any other language other than English. Spanish speaking Radio and TV stations operating within the United States would be heavily taxed for the privilege of polluting our airwaves.
9. Shut down all Bank Wire Transfers to countries from which illegals originate of amounts less than $50,000.
10. Establish a "Bounty" on Illegals, providing rewards to American citizens for information leading to the arrest and deportation of illegals.
11. Deputize into ICE hundreds of thousands of American citizens with prior police, military, or other government or private security experience to participate in the roundup. Offer them a "bounty" for apprehensions leading to the deportation of anyone in this country illegally.
12....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
kidsmom 8/7/2025 8:06:41 AM (No. 1987586)
Holy cow! What a list! I particularly like taxing the amounts sent back "home" at 50 percent. That amount alone could fund a small country...wait--what?? What a concept! We're actually paying other countries to house their illegals at the same time those illegals are bleeding us dry?? In the South, we call them ticks.....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/7/2025 9:10:00 AM (No. 1987595)
Great article, and a great list. And all the other posters list additions, also great. When can we start?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
walcb 8/7/2025 9:16:16 AM (No. 1987597)
Yes, excellent list, 2 and 3 will go a long way to resolve the problem.
2. Eliminate all government funding for everything other than truly emergency medical care. After that care is rendered, deport them.
3. Guarantee jail time for any employer caught employing illegals.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/7/2025 9:50:48 AM (No. 1987622)
They want people educated..poster #1...but...how they see their system of government...the very rich children in one category and the mindless peasants in the other....they really think....WE can't think for ourselves...and must be told what to eat and what to wear...BTW...ordered Sweeney jeans for my grandson for college this fall....wish I had stock in that company...almost didn't get them because their sizes are exhausted...thank heaven my grandson is a bull moose....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/7/2025 12:32:29 PM (No. 1987710)
Why are we teaching and financing the 3rd world illegals? We shouldn't be Santa Claus to the world. We don't have that kind of money and also. We are a nation of law and order or that is what we should be. Leftists in our nation would like to run our nation on emotion.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/7/2025 4:26:05 PM (No. 1987785)
Priority deportations should focus on those with criminal records, single young men from hostile nations, those who have not already applied for asylum, homeless illegals, and unemployed entrants collecting public benefits.
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