Tell me, just when did dumb become a political position in America?
David Vitter has had
it with undocumented immigrants. "Enough is enough," the repugican Louisiana gubernatorial candidate tweeted on Friday. "I
introduced a bill to require mandatory detention for anyone here
illegally & get illegal aliens on the next plane home."
The legislation Vitter introduced Friday doesn't actually require all immigrants to be detained and deported. It mostly applies to child migrants, 70,000 of whom will make their way to the United States from Central America this year. Specifically, unaccompanied minors without asylum claims would be put "on the next available flight to their home countries within 72 hours of an initial screening."
But if we really tried to do what Vitter's tweet suggests-and why not? He's a senator!-it would entail increasing the nation's immigration detention capacity by a factor of 365. And flying all those immigrants home would require more planes than currently exist.
The legislation Vitter introduced Friday doesn't actually require all immigrants to be detained and deported. It mostly applies to child migrants, 70,000 of whom will make their way to the United States from Central America this year. Specifically, unaccompanied minors without asylum claims would be put "on the next available flight to their home countries within 72 hours of an initial screening."
But if we really tried to do what Vitter's tweet suggests-and why not? He's a senator!-it would entail increasing the nation's immigration detention capacity by a factor of 365. And flying all those immigrants home would require more planes than currently exist.
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