It shouldn't cost more than about $5,000 to buy a place for an illegal in one or another developing countryOn LAPD and the illegal alien provocations and such like:
http://patterico.com/2007/05/10/when-the-last-hero-leaves-la-will-anybody-notice/ "In fact, according to the L.A. Police Protective League, fully 60% of LAPD officers have been with the department less than five years. At that rate, almost the entire department could have been replaced twice since the 1992 riots. Notably, officers who leave the LAPD in their first five years have to repay the City for their academy training.
If you want to understand why the LAPD can't retain officers, don't look to the Los Angeles Times. The story below was first told to five of their top staff writers. Each deemed it interesting, but none reported it. In fact, this very column was presented to their OpEd section, and was rejected because a vaguely similar piece ran last year, addressing a less compelling set of facts. Apparently, only limited space is allotted to critical local issues in Los Angeles's newspaper of record.
So, instead of looking to the Times, look to two other certified heroes: officers Troy Zeeman and Bryan Gregson. Last November, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger presented them with California Medals of Valor, for engaging a suspected killer in a running gunfight through a South L.A. apartment building.
The LAPD, by contrast, ruled them tactically deficient, worthy only of retraining."
While I have reason to know that LAPD isn't perfect -- it's overstretched to begin with -- city policies don't help. But the main problems in the past few years have been the swelling of the ranks of illegal immigrants.
The police are overloaded, as are the hospital emergency rooms and other social services; perhaps not true in other parts of the country, but certainly in California. The city of San Diego is essentially bankrupt due to the costs of illegal immigrants.
My solution to the illegal immigrant problem: close the borders ($20 billion a year? probably less. A billion dollars buys a lot of fences, border patrol agents, local sheriff services, and bounty hunters) and allow the melting pot to work. Stop this multi-culturalism and encourage assimilation as we did for 200 years. We need not actively seek out illegals. If they obey the laws, leave them alone. But if anyone illegally here comes to the attention of the police in any capacity other than as a crime victim, they get deported. If the country of origin will not take them back, then we buy them citizenship in Liberia, Chad, or some other willing place: indeed we can auction that off. Countries will bid for the fee we will pay them.
It shouldn't cost more than about $5,000 to buy a place for an illegal in one or another developing country. Meanwhile, a Congressional act instructs the courts that the Civil War Amendments do not make citizens of those born here to illegal immigrant parents; if need be, removes such cases from the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts and from appeal to the SCOTUS.
If the problem continues put a $3,000 bounty on illegal immigrants to be paid to whomever brings them to the authorities. That can include each other if husband and wife turn each other in. Take home a nice bonus.
With 20 million illegal immigrants in the US, and an average cost of $5500 to deal with each, that is $110 billion; not cheap, but given that illegal immigrants cost California alone about $20 billion a year in schools and hospital services (not to mention jails, police, and so forth) it will not be long before that investment shows a profit. And of course we won't have a full 20 million to deport.
Of course none of this will happen, but when Bush says that amnesty is the only possible policy it is evident that he has not properly considered the question, and those who have so advised him are no friends to the president.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view465.html
