A question for those who support HR 4437...the bill to make every

[sinkingfeeling]

person in American a felon if they are here illegally or if they aid anyone who is here illegally. Who's and how are we going to finance the imprisonment of 11 to 15 million more people? How many prisons/camps/detention facilities will need to be built? I read most states spend something like $30K per prisoner per year. Where's the money going to come from? How will all of it impact the economy?

Not looking for flames, just haven't heard anybody discussing this cost issue.

[IsItJustMe]

1. It's for show, that's all. We don't enforce existing laws, and wouldn't

be enforced either, but it makes for good politics with the RW.

[blondeatlast]

2. The most salient point specific to this bill (not the immigration issue)..

It's going to be a tremendous drain on law enforcement, the courts, and tax revenue.

And for that matter, who will build the prisons...?

No answers here, but this is the thing that can't possibly be ignored if this bill passes.

[evlbstrd]

3. Halliburton already has the contracts

to build the camps in case of "immigration emergencies." How we pay for it is as irrelevant as how we pay for the Iraq war and the tax cuts for the rich.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Yep. They do, via KBR, $385 million contract.

Detention Centers

Plus, there was that curious development in January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere in the United States, to deal with "an emergency influx of immigrants into the US, or to support the rapid development of new programs," KBR said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022306C.shtml

[BR_Parkway]

4. Since we don't fine or prosecute the company owners who employ

these folks, will having a new law (a felony at that) step up those prosecutions?

Bueler? Anyone? Anyone?

[Selatius]

5. It's a toothless bill unless they budget money to enforcement, but...

I think arms manufacturers will get money before police forces ever would.

Also, since Congress is dominated by big business, I doubt Congress would deprive business interests of some of the cheapest, most exploitable labor on US soil. I don't see it happening.

This has become THE NEXT WEDGE ISSUE.

[jonkronz2003]

6. The fiscal conservative party......

More jails = more $$$$$$$$
Send them home = more $$$$$$$ for airfare
Hearings = more $$$$$$$$ for the administrative courts
More border patrol people = more $$$$$$$$$ for manpower
Unskilled labor shortage = higher prices for food, lawn service, construction, and on and on and on

[mitchtv]

7. We all know how much the Pukes hate "Unfunded mandates"

the cost? charge it

[Cobalt Violet]

8. I haven't heard of anyone on DU supporting HR 4437.

[One_Life_To_Give]

9. Tax Cuts

Why we will just cut the tax rates in half. Then we will be rolling in money to pay fer locking up all them wetbacks. :sarcasm: