Citizenship and Immigration
By Mark Alexander · Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Debate on the Fate of Illegal Migrants
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming … to our established rules.” –Thomas Jefferson, May 2, 1801
The current debate over the fate of migrants who have illegally entered the United States is a complicated one, not solvable by simply re-warming President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1954 “Operation Wetback.” Were we to round up the estimated 12 to 18 million Latinos and Hispanics currently here illegally and dump them across our southern border into Mexico, it would have a dramatic impact on some areas of the country, and the illegals would be right back in short order, given the present state of our border insecurity.
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