Quote Originally Posted by Dark Dragonite
PROBLEM WITH DEPORTING: it would cost an amount we couldn't even fathom...don't get me wrong, I want them out, but not at the cost of the economy...
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What economy?

Quote Originally Posted by mr_pikachu
But would it really be better for the economy to let them drain the country's resources over many more years? Better to take the hit now than to hesitate with indecision and lose a lot more in the long run.
Yeah, exactly. We Americans are so great at planning ahead, after all - just look at how quickly we agreed with the Japanese-anti-global-warming-idea, the don't-bomb-the-Arabs-because-they-have-all-of-our-oil-and-that's-a-vital-resource-in-our-country-idea, the everyone-is shopping-at-Wal-Mart-which-is-costing-thousnads-of-hard-working-middle-class-people-their-jobs-idea, the develop-a-vaccine-for-avian-flu-before-it-gets-to-us-oh-wait-it-almost-has-idea, the what-happened-to-the-space-shuttle?-idea, the build-a-wall-to-keep-some-other-country-from-sending-thousands-of-missiles-at-us-idea, the what-the-****-are-our-troops-doing-in-Iraq?-idea, ........