Reply #11: I think they want frequent deportations to keep the immigrants in terror.

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They want the immigrants to whom they can pay debasing wages -- and the more often there are mass round-ups and deportations, the less likely any will ever earn citizenship. They don't want new citizens, they want a permanent under-under-underclass.

Also, the more afraid the immigrants are of the courts - the more likely they will work for less $ and complain to no one about abuses at work.

The more they have to live "underground" to escape detection, the less likely they take actions that will embarrass the powers that be -- like those terrible demonstrations they held last year demanding amnesty. :sarcasm:

Frequent deportations also keep the citizen population in fear - convinced that outsiders will hurt us and must be rounded up and shipped out by our big strong government.