US makes deportees take the long way home. (visa, illegals, Mexico)

[antarez]

U.S. makes deported immigrants take the long way home - latimes.com

Good, anything that will make it more difficult to return and is more disruptive and costly to Illegal invaders is a plus.

They should seize any cash they have and send them back to the southern end of Mexico and bill their government for it.

[malamute]

It might be a good program but I think all the border towns are filled with smugglers and have pretty easy access to the USA. Maybe it's best if they aren't sent to certain border cities like Nuevo Laredo or Ciudad Juarez where it's very easy to get a maquila job and save up money for the next cartel smuggler.

[antarez]

Originally Posted by malamute

It might be a good program but I think all the border towns are filled with smugglers and have pretty easy access to the USA. Maybe it's best if they aren't sent to certain border cities like Nuevo Laredo or Ciudad Juarez where it's very easy to get a maquila job and save up money for the next cartel smuggler.

If it makes it more difficult and they waste more of their money getting ripped off and abused in a strange town at least some of them might reconsider.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by antarez

If it makes it more difficult and they waste more of their money getting ripped off and abused in a strange town at least some of them might reconsider.

Yes.

I just wonder if it really will -- does it really matter to an illegal from Chipas or Michoacan if he's having to find cartel smugglers in Tijuana or in Matamoros? It seems like for the majority of illegals, one border town would be as good as any other. But yes, if it ends up costing them more money then it might deter some of them.

The problem is that it doesn't really have to cost them too much to get over here illegally. It can cost just $600 to be crossed over right in the middle of El Paso where all the conveniences are, and a rented laser visa that lets them come right on through the legal ports of entry only costs $500 or so. Getting that money together is not too difficult in a border city, not as easy in much of the interior. Maybe we should deport them to their own southern border.