The send the 12 million home myth

The NY Times has an unreal editorial on the immigration debate in the Republican party and manages to miss a phenomena that is taking place under their very eyes.

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... The Republicans have been battling over the sincerity of their sound bites and trying to make their fixation on one dimension of the problem — tough border and workplace enforcement — sound like the solution.

But it isn’t, of course, because it ignores the fundamental question of what to do about the undocumented 12 million. A locked-down border won’t affect them. There is no way to round them up and move them out all at once. Not even the most eagerly anti-immigration candidate would dare talk about detention camps. Amnesty is a Republican curse word. So what’s the plan?

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This is a straw man argument that overlooks the self deportation effect of work place enforcement. It is already happening in large numbers in Arizona and Oklahoma where tough state laws have made it more difficult to hire illegals. I am sure the Times reporters have seen the stories on this movement, but the papers editorial board remains locked into its ideological prism/prison. You don't need detention camps or amnesty to handle the problem. The same market forces that brought them here will send them home. If they don't have jobs and can't get welfare they will go home. It is happening already.