How do you move 12 million people that don't want to go?

Cost to Remove 12M Illegal Immigrants Huge By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
As Congress debates immigration reforms, some experts say the most extreme proposal - deporting millions of illegal immigrants - would be a huge legal and logistical morass, and ruinously expensive, too. [Yahoo News]

I guess at some point a brilliant person would say "If we deported them all, what would it take..." The answer is that it just is not a realistic position to take.

Estimates are that it would cost $215 billion dollars and I have seen reports that the bus convoy would stretch from the California/Mexico border all the way to Alaska (one assumes through Canada) where there are no less than 21,000 latinos said to be living and working illegally.

The government says they have no intention of trying to deport them, which begs the question, why bother at all trying to limit what they can do then? If you are not going to deport them, then you are essentially allowing them to remain legally, which, quite frankly defeats the entire purpose of the argument.