“You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, and them’s pretty good odds.” -paraphrase of Abraham Lincoln
Confusion confounds the clarion call for clarity. Estimates vary; however, some number more than 15-million, illegal aliens invaded these United States invited to do so during the cursed tenure of the senile, corrupt, traitorous ex-President Joe Biden. During now-President Trump’s more recent, presidential campaigning, he promised massive deportations of these invaders starting immediately.
Well, the deportations have started immediately, but they hardly are massive. Hundreds at a time at most versus the millions requiring deportation. That which the deportations truly are is expensive to you, the productive taxpayer. Why? The transport of these invaders is by air, the most expensive, least efficient means of transportation. To achieve altitude after lift-off for jet-powered airliners, two hundred thousand to 500,000 pounds of thrust are requires to overcome gravity.
Transport by water would be the least expensive, most efficient, most practicable means to whence they started. No harbor available? Transport to the nearest, practicable harbor then transport by bus.
Transport by water? How? Lease old steamers no longer in active use. Pack the invaders to an optimal number. Feed them minimally nutritious, inexpensive meals. Render only the most basic medical care. Americans owe them nothing!
Wait! We live in a maternalistic matriarchy. Does not commonplace opinion demand transport first class on airliners with meals of Filet Mignon accompanied by the finest wine imported from France or the equivalent.
Of course, the cheapest, most efficient procedure to send the illegal aliens packing was described in the novel, Retribution Fever, as follows:
In 1953 with “Operation Wetback”, President Eisenhower proved that we can defend our southern border effectively with a minimum of manpower at a minimum of expense provided that we employ sufficiently potent and immediate contingencies. We will. We must. Resurrection of the traditional American character and culture is at stake.
Furthermore, all persons currently in these United States illegally will have one hundred days in which to leave peaceably. After that period, we shall arrest them and place them into detaining camps until we can repatriate them at minimal expense consistent with humane values whether their countries of origin want them. Be advised, we will repatriate them . . . by force if necessary. Those who forcibly resist arrest will be shot with intent to kill.
[Note for Readers: When the use of lethal force is well advertised beforehand, lethal force seldom becomes necessary.]
During stays in the detaining camps, illegal aliens will receive only basic meals and basic medical care. They will be granted no rights or entitlements, whatsoever, under the Constitution; which should not confer its protections to invaders . . . armed or unarmed. Previous rulings of an imperious U.S. Supreme Court have rested largely upon the prior, problematic Fourteenth Amendment, which easily could be interpreted to reach the opposite conclusion. Any trials will be by military not civilian tribunals.
Be Mr. Trump serious about deporting 15-million illegal aliens, he will employ the least expensive, most efficient means available. Transportation by air of the huge number of illegals will require years if not decades. To continue the current procedure is to renege on his campaigning promises; but, then again, that’s politics. Fool the people by giving them a little taste of the promised cheese, certainly not the whole amount.