Who would be so foolish as to tell Americans that it cannot be done? We carved a nation out of a wilderness. In 1776 we defeated the world's greatest superpower, Great Britain, and established a republic. In the 1860s we preserved the Union. We built the Transcontinental Railroad, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal. It was Americans who invented the airplane, the telephone, the electric light, the nuclear reactor. We won three world wars in a century. We went to the Moon. In every case, we were told it could not be done.

One of the leading arguments for amnesty is that we cannot deport 10 million people. The problem, they argue, cannot be solved so we must surrender and accept a new status quo.

How is handling 10 million illegal immigrants harder than any of the other challenges that Americans have faced in the past? Knowing our history, it is absolutely insulting to say that we cannot solve this problem. We are Americans. We can do anything that we put our minds to do.

The impossibility of deporting 10 million people is a red herring. I refuse to accept it as a viable argument in the debate. Given our resources, we could deport 10 million people. The point is, however, irrelevant. Why would we have to deport anyone when we did not have to import anyone?

The illegal immigrants exerted a great amount of energy, resources and ingenuity in breaking and entering into our country. Americans did not pay a dime or lift a finger to get them here. The illegal immigrants got here on their own; they will leave here on there own. The illegal immigrants broke into our country because they saw rewards for their efforts. They will leave just as quickly when they see no rewards and only punish for their efforts.

Do not tell me that America cannot solve the immigration problem. I am an American. I do not know the meaning of "can't".

See: "Illegal immigrants self deport as woes mount" (Reuters, 2007.12.24)