My thoughts about the “rounding up” of illegal immigrants:
“Rounding them up” implies that brown skinned people who fit the description will be stopped on the street and forced to prove their innocence on the spot. I think I’d be hard pressed to prove I’m a citizen. I guess it would take about a month to get a copy of my birth certificate (Which I tried to do when I applied for a Jersey nursing license).
It’s going to be extremely expensive to run an operation like this. You’re gonna need a department bigger than the TSA for starters.
I happen to think the government has a duty to its citizens to prosecute and ultimately deport Illegal aliens who get caught up in the legal system for whatever reason, or turn them back at the border, or whatever routine actions are taken with people trying to enter illegally. I just don’t believe we should be casting out a net for them. I had a couple employees who were probably here illegally. I paid them the same as everybody else, treated them as best I could just like everybody else, and I didn’t sweat their status. Even if I knew whether they were here legally or not, I wouldn’t have acted on it. If somebody can get here and live their life under the radar, I don’t see any reason to go after them.