Six Pursue Self Deportation: 12 Million to Follow?

We were skeptical when ICE announced its new Operation Scheduled Departure, which encourages undocumented immigrants to turn themselves in and agree to deportation.  But we were wrong!  AP reports that six undocumented immigrants turned themselves in in the first week of the new program’s operation.  It just may be possible that we may eliminate the entire undocumented population — if in-migration ends now — in the United States in thousands of years.  Please feel free to correct math; whatever the calculations, the point is that losing one undocumented immigrant a day will not do much to reduce the overall undocumented immigrant population.

KJ