The trouble with Trump's deportations

... No one who accepts the idea of borders (i.e., no one except fringe anarchists) can seriously defend the policy: “illegal immigration should be a crime, unless you’ve already committed it”...

Donald Trump’s administration has decided that the best way to remove illegal immigrants [illegal alien invaders] from the US is to... literally grab people off the street...

A far more effective policy would be something like mandatory E-verify for all employees, combined with frequent audits... and heavy fines on offending businesses. Indeed, research shows that even the current, limited E-verify system has a sizeable impact on illegal immigration. Mandatory E-verify would also get around the problem of "sanctuary cities" by making employers responsible for checking workers' legal status...

There have been several past attempts to get a mandatory E-verify law through Congress, but none were successful...

You have to remember that, from the perspective of an employer, illegal immigrants are pretty much the ideal workers: they have little bargaining power (owing to the threat of removal) so will readily accept low wages, long hours and poor working conditions...

The truth is that powerful interests aligned with the GOP do not want large numbers of illegal immigrants to leave the country...