Tuesday, April 12, 2005

An alternative to busing

CQ.com: Flight Plans? DHS May Resume Airlifting Mexican Illegals Back Home:

Last year's pilot program ran for about 10 weeks and sent 14,000 illegal immigrants back to Mexico on flights to Mexico City or Guadalajara. Including bus tickets for the balance of their trip back to their home towns, the cost was over $1,000 each.

The idea is to slow up the turnaround time for the next attempted crossing. When illegals are simply bused back to the border, they often attempt to cross again the same day.

I had an idea a while back that would really slow them up and might convince some of them not to try in the first place. Buy up a couple square miles of Guatemala on the Mexican border, put in an airstrip and a nice strong fence with a big gate on the Mexican side. Take the illegals found in places like Arizona and fly them to our base in Guatemala and shove them out the gate back into Mexico.

One way or another, we have to get serious about the border.

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