We should get rid of illegal aliens.

I accept your challenge (I feel like some sort of knight). First of all- I am happy to oblige. "Some estimates place the amount of dollars going south in 2006 will be $45 Billion, which was up from an estimated $30 Billion in 2004." says The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration. Now this was 2006, which means if the amount of money leaving the country kept the same rate of growth, that means that in 2008, a very low estimate is $67.5 BILLION. That means $67.5 BILLION is leaving the country every year. Now you may ask, what's wrong with that? Well there are many things wrong with that. Sending $67.5 billion out of the country creates a giant sucking sound and lowers the value of the dollar. That $67.5 billion is also $67.5 billion that Americans could be spending. Lets back up for a second and review the definition of illegal. According to Dictionary.com, the word illegal means "forbidden by law or statute". Now- isn't hopping the fence at the US borders illegal and forbidden by both law and statute? They are screwing up our government in a couple of ways. First- some of them are criminals (although all of them are illegal and, therefore, criminals) and in these new, ridiculous "safe-havens" these criminals may not be prosecuted. Second- These are illegal immigrants, not registered with the US government, an institution he clearly adores. This means the IRS cannot tax said illegals because they do not officially, as US citizens, exist. This also means that people are paying a portion of their taxes to send illegal people to school. Next I shall tackle my unworthy opponent's quote "it would be borderline Ethnic Cleansing to do so (since it will be aimed almost exclusively on Latin Americans (particularly Mexicans)." By the way, you forgot a parentheses. I would like to point out that I did not say anything about these illegal immigrants being Mexican and Latin Americans. Now, since you brought that up, yes, they mostly are from Latin America and Mexico. However to say that this is "Ethnic Cleansing" is a ridiculous unfounded claim that I will not tolerate. Therefore, I will tear it apart. Ethnic cleansing is "the persecution through imprisonment, expulsion, or killing of members of an ethnic minority by a majority to achieve ethnic homogeneity in majority-controlled territory". Now this brings up another point- does imprisoning criminals count as "ethnic cleansing"? No. Countries all over the world do this every day. So then how come when you imprison and/or deport ILLEGAL immigrants, it is all of a sudden "ethnic cleansing"? To compare the United States to the Nazi Germans in the 1940's should be considered criminal. In the last year, illegal immigration has dropped 20%. Why? You may ask. Well, its because of just shipping the aliens back over the border the instant they come over, the United States has figured out a solution (sort of). They have been detaining the criminals (everyone) for three plus weeks. Now this has deterred people from jumping considerably. Once they have a couple of weeks to lose, they won't be so inclined to do it. Why is it our job to help raise the Mexican economy??? Give the minutemen ant the border licence to arrest and detain anyone that jumps (or burrows) over (or under) the fence. PS- We have quite a high amount of Canadians jumping to get away from their horrible National Health Care System, but that's another day. So, as I read from your profile, you are against the War in Iraq. Does that mean we should help a country just because it is closer to us? Bush has been helping the Iraqi economy for years and received nothing but criticism. Now you are proposing that we help another country's economy? Hypocrite!