Why don’t these people just apply for citizenship and do it the legal way? Is that just too much to ask?
Most of them don’t want citizenship; they just want jobs.
The problem is that for too many years we’ve let them walk across the border without green cards, and that goes for both the Bush administration and the Obama administration.
I don’t like the situation any more than anyone else but it exists and we now have to find a sensible way to deal with it without turning the Hispanic voting population, i.e., those who are already citizens, into permanent Democrat voters for the foreseeable future. That’s just reality, and the candidates recognize that reality so not a single one of them is going to call for either a blanket deportation, or a situation that results in massive self-deportation.