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To the editor:
Although tongue in cheek, a recent letter suggested deporting the entire undocumented population of Florida and Texas (“Deep (red) states,” Letters, The Chief, April 11).
This is not possible. Even Eisenhower's deportation of Mexicans in the mid 1950s produced numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Assuming three planeloads of 250 a day it would take over 10 years.
Neither the author or anyone else can state for sure what would happen to the economy if someone waved a magic wand and made the undocumented population vanish. The most likely scenario would be a period of transition and adjustment. But the economy would recover, just as it has recovered from scores of crises throughout history.
Nat Weiner
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J. Donne
It is undeniable that deporting undocumented immigrants from Florida and Texas would be an enormous undertaking, necessitating over a decade and incurring substantial financial costs. Nevertheless, historical evidence indicates that economies invariably recover from challenging times. President Trump’s primary objective is to eliminate illegal immigration and ensure that immigrants who enter the United States illegally do not derive benefits from such actions. Consequently, immigrants now face a critical decision: legal immigration or deportation—a stark reality.
Wednesday, April 16 Report this
wpeakes
@JDonne
Efforts to curtail immigration, legal or otherwise, will ultimately fail because it has been incentivized by employers in Florida, Texas, and other states that are willing to hire whoever at the cheapest cost possible. Let's start there with the so-called purge of immigrants and assess legal, criminal, and/or financial penalties to those employers first instead of demonizing and terrorizing people, legal or otherwise, who only want to make a living.
Wednesday, April 16 Report this
reenjoe
It's nice to see that even some conservative voices agree that Trump's promise to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants (or even JD Vance's goal to start with 1 million) was nothing more than campaign puffery.
Thursday, April 17 Report this
krell1349
I don't want my tax dollars to pay for this. And yes, the employers in big Republican states don't want this to happen. Their labor costs will go sky high. Food prices will go way up, perhaps causing inflation. Americans don't want to do those jobs. you won't find Americans willing to do those jobs.
Friday, April 18 Report this
J. Donne
Information source KMOT-Minot News
The Cost of Illegal Immigration on The American Taxpayer
The annual cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer is $150 billion. States could allocate these funds to address pressing societal issues like housing the homeless, establishing treatment centers, providing medical care and housing for veterans, and enhancing educational facilities for children. Additionally, there would be a significant reduction in violent criminal activities.
Deporting undocumented immigrants benefits states and taxpayers.
(Media bias/ fact check)
KMOT-Minot News
Bias rating: Least bias
Factual reporting: High
MBFC Credibility rating: High
(KMOT, a TV station, is known for its high factual reporting and low bias rating, making it a credible source of information.)
Friday, April 25 Report this
reenjoe
The last JDonne post is more deception and nonsense.
KMOT-Minot news did not DETERMINE that immigrants cost taxpayers $150 billion/yr. They, along with most news outlets, REPORTED that a think tank called FAIR made this claim. For what it's worth, Musk also cites this figure.
FAIR and their sister group CIS, have been making this claim for many years. Politifact checked the claim and rated it FALSE. Included in Politifact's analysis is this:
The Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank, called the report "fatally flawed" and published a detailed critique of FAIR’s work: "FAIR’s report reaches that conclusion by vastly overstating the costs of illegal immigration, undercounting the tax revenue they generate, inflating the number of illegal immigrants, counting millions of U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, and by concocting a method of estimating the fiscal costs that is rejected by all economists who work on this subject."
None of the above is unknown to JDonne. I have provided this information to him/her several times in other posts. He/She is apparently immune to facts.
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