OCR, no the problem is not being resolved before our eyes. While it may be true there are less border crossers today for a variety of reasons, it doesn’t change the fact that their are still approximately 15million illegals living in the U.S. Until they either return to their countries by choice, deportation, or are given some sort of legal documentation, they will continue to cause problems for society.
If you really believe that their only cost to society are schools and school lunches then you are painfully ingorant or naive on this subject. Also, regarding strawberry picking, if it truly becomes cost prohibitive to harvest strawberries using American labor, why not import the strawberries from Mexico? What is so special about “California strawberries” if all of the labor costs are going to Mexicans (and most of that money sent back to Mexico) anyway?[/quote]
15 million within a country of 313 million, that’s less than 5%. Other estimates have the illegal population at 10 million, or 3.5% of the population.
The estimated cost to deport one illegal is $12500 per the latest estimate. So that’ll be 125 billion to 187 billion to do the deportation.
This is not the days of India’s partitioning where we can just get millions of people to migrate by walking across the border.
As for your strawberry comment, the environmentalists would love you. You do realize that is the ultimate wet dream for them, to have all that land filled with pesticides and irrigated by water taken away from endangered fish and frogs return to how nature intended.
