Is Mass Deportation Realistic? | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU

If, say, 500 people entered the country illegally in any given year, it's hard to imagine there would be much controversy if the government deported them.

Well, what if 5,000 people entered the country illegally in any given year? What if 500,000 did? Would you start to get nervous that the country was being overwhelmed by illegal immigrants? Would you say like Bill Clinton did in 1995? We won't tolerate immigration by people whose first act is to break the law as they enter our country.

We must continue to do everything we can to strengthen our borders, enforce our laws, and remove illegal aliens.

Or would you just say, well, yeah, they broke the law, but whether they should be deported depends on how otherwise law-abiding they've been, so we need to examine each person case by case.

What if the annual number of people entering the country illegally was 5 million? 10 million? 20 million? And what if many of those people were poor, uneducated, unable to support themselves, vast numbers who needed public assistance to survive? What if even 10% were criminals, the worst kind of gang members, murderers, rapists, thieves? Would you say, well, that's just a small minority.

Every group has its share of bad people.

Do you think your opinion might change if you personally knew someone who had been robbed, assaulted, raped, or murdered by an illegal immigrant? What if you knew that most of the illegal immigrants paid drug cartels to smuggle them in? That these cartels, off this human trafficking alone, made $13 billion in a single year, 2021.

And these same cartels forced women and children, boys as well as girls, into prostitution, sold deadly drugs to our young people, and took over whole neighborhoods in our towns and cities.

What if, as the Obama administration's U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reported, this massive influx puts downward pressure on wages and takes jobs from American citizens, especially those in the lower middle class, in industries like meatpacking and construction? What if, as the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas concluded, American citizens find it harder to obtain affordable housing because demand from mass immigration increased home and rent prices, crowding them out? What if illegal immigration threatens our very republic? Remember, the census counts people, not citizens.

So even though illegal immigrants can't vote, they do have a profound impact on how many members of Congress and electoral votes each state has.

We add or subtract congressional districts based on a state's population.

And a state's population is not based on who can vote, but on who resides there, legally or not.

So the more illegal residence a state draws, the more power it has in Congress.

Could this perhaps account for some states and cities' sanctuary policies? Or are these states and cities more compassionate than others? Okay, I've asked a lot of questions.