Perhaps I'm missing something in here, but I've yet to hear even the most conservative who doesn't believe that any solution starts at one place: Closing the border to illegals.
But hey, let's go with Bush who wants amnesty and more open borders or Rubio who wants amnesty and more open borders or — why the list goes on and on and on, and since it fits perfectly with Democrats who view these as their future voters, it will pass with ‘full bipartisan’ support which always means we get screwed.
I have zero delusions about Trump. I know he used to be quite liberal, and likely has quite a few bends in that direction today that would give me heartburn.
Democrats up until this point have absolutely shut down any discussion on the topic. Do you imagine that without Trump, there’d be ANY questions about illegal immigration?
Could someone who believes that Trump is a deep down conservative please raise your hand? Because I'm pretty sure there's no fools here. I do not expect him to declare on the first day he'll make a presidential directive outlawing abortion.
BUT he's done all of us a great favor. He's finally brought up conversations which have been forbidden. Illegal immigration, exporting of jobs, trade deals that strip the one real constitutional method of funding the government, crappy deals with Iran and the disaster fighting ISIS.
So, yes, I'm sitting here eagerly cheering him on, watching the heads of liberals in both parties explode with pent up frustration as he shatters every single ‘absolute political rule.’ They've pulled the racist card on him, he autographed it. They pulled the sexist card on him, he gave it a kiss.
Got a better idea, rather than railing on about Trump, how about getting out there and kicking the rumps of the idiot lazy politicians who are following the ‘sage’ advice of the same advisors who have lost the white house two times in a row now against - I mean this is just awesome - a first term senator who wouldn't even release his college transcripts.
Closing the border only solves part of the problem. 40% of the illegals came here legally and overstayed their visas. We need a system to track and deport visa overstays. We also need to cut off the job magnet with mandatory e-verify.
We also need to reduce legal immigration significantly from the current 1.1 million a year and guest worker programs that bring in 640,000 a year. We have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. Immigrants are taking American jobs and depressing wages. We have a huge surplus of labor. Only Santorum is talking about reducing legal immigration.