[KirinDave]

Yeah, I'm sure that's an action that would basically pay for itself.</sarcasm>

I can think of no greater economic nightmare than a nice racially motivated witch-hunt against the states most-exploited worker class.

[yummyfajitas]

How is enforcing existing laws against a group which is predominantly white a "racially motivated witch-hunt"?

You are also horribly misusing the term "witch hunt". The problem with a witch-hunt is that witches don't exist. Anyone you catch in a witch-hunt is innocent. By contrast, rounding up illegals is highly likely to catch a bunch of existing criminals and will probably have a low false positive rate.

[kingkongrevenge]

Japan did a big immigration enforcement round up last year as the economy slowed and shipped a lot of people out. They seem ok.