Word of the day "self-deportation"

[Anonymous]

Illegal immigrants are going to find there is no work here and "self-deport" themselves back to their home countries. Really. They are going to leave the U.S. on foot and walk back over the border home and celebrate that they are no longer here. WTH?

[Anonymous]

Link?

[Anonymous]

Sorry....don't have a link........he was speaking today......saw it on the news.....He said it, and then scrambled to say he was not in favor of deportation himself, although he did say that if he is elected he'd present a "permanent solution" for illegal immigration, which is just scary, imho.

[Anonymous]

Romney coined the term in the Tampa debate. At least I think he was the first person to say it. Since then, plenty of articles have discussed this approach, which is to make it painful for undocumented immigrants to stay in this country but not specifically rounding them up. Thus they self-deport.

[Anonymous]

The native American's have been destroyed, so everyone in this damn country is an immigrant, except for those who were enslaved and brought here against their will. Sounds like vigilanties and rogue "police" will be endorsed/encourage further. Scary times from where I sit.

[Anonymous]

Link from the debates when Romney said he was in favor of self deportation

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57364444-503544/romney-on-immigration-im-for-self-deportation/

[Anonymous]

Maybe they will self abort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Romney coined the term in the Tampa debate. At least I think he was the first person to say it. Since then, plenty of articles have discussed this approach, which is to make it painful for undocumented immigrants to stay in this country but not specifically rounding them up. Thus they self-deport.

Romney did not coin the term. It's been around. Our government has no money to escort people back and so we tell them to self-deport. It's stupid really.

[Anonymous]

This has already been occuring for the last 5 years or so. We are currently at a zero population growth of immigrants (legal and illegal) from Mexico as the number immigrating to the US is approximately equal to the number emigrating back to Mexico.

This was a relatively big story a few months ago, towards the beginning of summer when the Census report came out with the numbers.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has already been occuring for the last 5 years or so. We are currently at a zero population growth of immigrants (legal and illegal) from Mexico as the number immigrating to the US is approximately equal to the number emigrating back to Mexico.

This was a relatively big story a few months ago, towards the beginning of summer when the Census report came out with the numbers.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/

For whatever reason, this just caught my attention yesterday, when the "candidate" spoke it in public as a viable option. No one is going to willingly deport themselves from this country!

[Anonymous]

There are many american students who find that education is cheaper abroad, many american professionals finding employment abroad, many us citizen children attending school in another land.
One very interesting article I found was on american workers going to work in china.

[Anonymous]

Go back to china, mexicans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has already been occuring for the last 5 years or so. We are currently at a zero population growth of immigrants (legal and illegal) from Mexico as the number immigrating to the US is approximately equal to the number emigrating back to Mexico.

This was a relatively big story a few months ago, towards the beginning of summer when the Census report came out with the numbers.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/

For whatever reason, this just caught my attention yesterday, when the "candidate" spoke it in public as a viable option. No one is going to willingly deport themselves from this country!

They will if we make it uncomfortable for them to be here. No Spanish, hire only Americans for landscaping, housecleaning, farm labor (yes, Americans who NEED WORK will do it, who do you think did it before the Mexicans? Then remove unemployment benefits for those Americans who refuse such work.), restaurant kitchen labor, etc.

If said Americans are Spanish or Hispanic, obviously that's great, before anyone starts with this being "against brown people." --snicker--- This is something to get illegals the hell out AND get more Americans working. Adios, Mexicans!!

[Anonymous]

You're plain wrong, PP. Americans will NOT do the work our immigrants are doing. Why do you think the crops rotted in the fields last summer when states enacted harsher rules for immigrant labor? Because every able-bodied American was already fully employed?

I own a small business with a service component. In the time I've been doing this, I've had many employees come and go. The ones I've had to fire for bad attitude, laziness, absenteeism etc have all been "real" Americans. The handful of employees who started with me when I opened the business, and are still with me, the backbone of my staff, are EVERY ONE OF THEM an immigrant. My non-native-born employees are committed, pleasant and hard-working. All my American-born employees, even the ones who are really good, are waiting for something better to come along. The turnover rate is very high among them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I own a small business with a service component. In the time I've been doing this, I've had many employees come and go. The ones I've had to fire for bad attitude, laziness, absenteeism etc have all been "real" Americans. The handful of employees who started with me when I opened the business, and are still with me, the backbone of my staff, are EVERY ONE OF THEM an immigrant. My non-native-born employees are committed, pleasant and hard-working. All my American-born employees, even the ones who are really good, are waiting for something better to come along. The turnover rate is very high among them.

If your "non-native-born" employees are here legally, wonderful. More power to you and them. If they are here illegally and you're contributing to this massive problem we have, I hope your business crashes.