“Deporting them all is exactly what we would do if we were enforcing the law. The law calls for them to be deported. If you don’t want them deported, then you are the one who doesn’t want the law enforced.”
But it pays to live in the real world rather than a fantasy world. We actually can’t physically deport 20 million or more people except over many, many years. But we can begin to strictly enforce employment laws and take away incentives for people to remain here illegally. That will cause significant self-deportation, then, as I clearly said, we’d deport all illegals encountered during normal law enforcement.
We’ve seen significant self-deportation from states that have enacted strict laws. If the Feds start enforcing the employment laws and other laws as they encounter illegals, then we’d see a steady decrease in the number of illegals. But the notion that we can physically round up 20 million or more illegals and deport them is nonsense. We have to take away the things that attract them here and keep them here.
It took many years of ignoring the law for us to be invaded by millions of foreign criminals, and it will indeed take many more years to enforce the law, and deport them.