The policy of deporting people who are in the country illegally is PRECISELY "proportional" to the offense committed.

They're not supposed to be here, so they can't be here. It's exact proportionality.

Now we have to ALSO WAIT for them not only to commit CRIMES, but to be captured and convicted of those crimes???

That's what the criminal law is for.

Besides, encouraging illegal immigration is a "seive" and you are going to have a huge population of people who just have no respect for the law of any kind if they think there will be no consequences.

They vote illegally, they drive with no insurance or inadequate insurance, they work off the books and don't pay taxes, if they are "contractors" they are unlicensed and have no insurance, and on, and on, and on.

And maybe they are NEVER convicted of a "crime."

These people are selfish and looking out only for themselves. Period. They have no respect for this country or its laws, period. They will get away with as much as they think they can get away with, period.