Tani Coyote
Son of Huehuecoyotl
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Zelig has a point. In that same paragraph in the OP you were talking about people being stopped and confronted by police who presumably haven't been convicted yet. So where do convicted and imprisoned criminals come into this AZ issue?
I imagine if they're in jail already, they can be screened and dealt with - deported - accordingly.
Though it's probably cheaper just to lock illegals up, considering they'll just try again... and then all that money will be wasted to catch them again, deport them again, and then the cycle repeats. Short of putting a large, impossible-to-remove tattoo on convicted illegal immigrants so they're recognised immediately(never mind that you'd hear "h00mun riiights!! "), the constant catching and deportation cycle is too expensive compared to alternatives.
And even more cheaper I imagine to get rid of the circumstances that cause them to come: make it easier for Americans to compete with them, punish employers more harshly if they hire illegals, etc.