Deportation Woes Call For Some Tough Love?

Trump blames “Biden’s border invasion” for Laken Riley murder & vows “largest deportation operation” if elected. But, deportation is less of an option today so don’t feds AND states need to lock up illegals convicted of violent crimes?

While being mindful of the constitution’s Due Process Clause & other protections afforded all “persons” (and not just citizens), maybe throw in tougher bail rules & enforcement by prosecutors & jurists. This may increasingly be important because deportation is becoming “The Great Shrinking Illegal Option”. In fact, the number of countries refusing to take back their line jumping citizens has grown. Most recently, the WSJ reports that Venezuela’s president “revoked” an agreement with Mexico & the US, to take back its deported citizens, thereby joining such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, etc. who play the “keep our worst” game. What game you ask? When President Biden threatened “sanctions” against Venezuela for not so much as trying to manage its citizen exodus to the US, its own president made good on his threat to tear up that earlier agreement & “stop deported migrant flights” back into his country. Similar EU sanctions threats have met with little success.

So, as ICE has been warning Joe's Administration, the “Recalcitrant Countries” issue is becoming a bottomless problem for its removal operations. So, if deportation & sanctions for balking native lands no longer work, what’s left to the US? Give up & concede an open border? Or, finally remember something called “Tough Love”? And, the home grown criminal law?

Davd Soul