
Originally Posted by
Novaheart
So people from Somalia can't be deported? How about North Koreans?
It's a problem. Look at the difficulties involved in the Yemenis at Gitmo. Obama would love to repatriate them, but Yemen won't take them back. When you have an illegal immigrant from a country that has no government, or whose government is openly hostile, and they are effectively agents of that government, or agents of another hostile power, your options diminish dramatically. We can count on Britain, for example, to keep persons who are persona non grata from even getting on a plane to the US, but we cannot count on Haiti to do it.
The draconian solution is to deport them with a warning, that if they return to the US after having been convicted of a felony and deported, their next prison term will be for life. Either that, or do what they did in Johnny Dangerously to Boss Moroni:
Newspaper Headline: Roman Moroni Deported to Sweden. Says He's Not From There.

Originally Posted by
noonwitch
Just out of curiousity-how often do we get illegal immigrants from North Korea? It's not exactly easy to leave there.
Usually, they're spies with diplomatic immunity.