It is a practical impossibility to deport millions of people.
2. If it were possible, it would be ruinously expensive.
3. If possible and affordable, it would be inhumane to break up families, to disrupt peaceable people who contribute to our society, to return people to countries where they have no/weak ties and may be unable to speak the language or find a job, to deport people who themselves did not break the law because they were brought here as children, to dump people into dangerous circumstances due to crime or living conditions.
4. We have a treaty obligation to permit those seeking asylum to make their cases and have them adjudicated before deportation proceeds.
5. We need to go to work on the factors that draw people to immigrate illegally, for the most part better described as the factors that force them out of their own countries. In many cases, the reason their home countries are so dangerous or poor is directly related to our own government's actions (usually in pursuit of profit for our companies or resources for our society) in those countries over decades; we have a moral obligation to them to fix what we broke, not to punish their citizens for trying to escape the conditions we helped to create.
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