[kevkrom]

He already has stated that he doesn't want to deport the vast majority of illegal immigrants already here

No, he said large-scale deportation is impractical, but that attrition will work. (As it is already working in a few states.)

He wants to register them, give them work permits, and provide them with an EVENTUAL path to US citizenship.

Care to back up this bulls*** with a source?

[ejonesie22]

It is past impractical, it is impossible currently. We can’t even house our own prison population nation wide, where do we process 20 million illegals.

Attrition tied to immediate deportation of those arrested for criminal offenses and working with those who prove a value to our economy (which will help squelch the business lobby who could kill the whole thing) will get this thing done with a minimum cost and in a reasonably rapid time frame. It will also reduce the logistical expense, the number of inevitable court challenges, and will conserve our resources for better things, letting us move on to other issues.

[Hostage]

Eisenhower rounded up close to 100,000 illegals and scared more than a million back across the border with ‘Operation Wetback’.

But Eisenhower did not have the technology to cause attrition. Today we have the tech.

Today we need not round up millions, we need only turn off the attractions to those that can’t prove they are here illegally.