“Attrition through Enforcement”

Fred Thompson has released his anti-illegal immigration policy.

This particular part caught my eye.  It sounds a lot like what Prince William County is currently engaged in.

Attrition through Enforcement: Reduce the number of illegal aliens through increased enforcement against unauthorized alien workers and their employers. Without illegal employment opportunities available, fewer illegal aliens will attempt to enter the country, and many of those illegally in the country now likely will return home. This course of action offers a reasonable alternative to the false choices currently proposed to deal with the 12 million or more aliens already in the U.S. illegally: either arrest and deport them all, or give them all amnesty.

This is working already in PWC. It can work across America, too.

Highlights of the Thompson Plan:

• No Amnesty
• Enforce Existing Federal Laws … including:

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  1. End Sanctuary Cities
  2. Deny discretionary Federal education grants
  3. Deny discretionary Federal education grants as appropriate to public universities that violate federal law by offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens without also offering identical benefits to United States citizens, regardless of whether or not they live in the state

• Increased Border Security: Doubling Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents handling interior enforcement, increasing the Border Patrol to at least 25,000 agents, and increasing detention space to incarcerate illegal aliens we arrest rather than letting them go with a promise to show up later for legal proceedings against them.
• Attrition through Enforcement
• Maximize Legal Immigration Program Efficiency
• Modernize Immigration Law/Policy
• English as Official Language
• Preference for American Military Service