I understand your logic, and have no real dispute with it, except I would bring up a few things:
At some point, the problems that reach the lawful start to mount in the name of punishing all who are lawless. How much more money to we want to spend on law enforcement so that we can mass deport. How much other crime do we want to tolerate because much of law enforcement is tied up with deportation. How much more are we willing to pay for everything - yes, everything, in our econonomy. This is a 60 year old dynamic, and unravelling it is going to be much more hell on all of us than anyone is mature enough to admit.
How much are we willing to screw up our own lives to make sure folks don’t “get away’ with something? Thats the question. I mean, I hate that such is the case, but I believe it is the case.
Can’t argue with you. I follow your logic and I confess that your take on this is something I haven’t seen detailed elsewhere.
I do have a philosophical, and moral, argument with codifying illegality as legality. I know you understand and share that.
Part of me wants to say that ‘if we can build an atom bomb from a theory, as a nation we can deport’, but in the age of 0bama, I’m not so sure that is the case. Our last remaining question, at least to me, is do we have the will to try?
Like you, I know the political class does not. Which leaves us in a hell of a big hole.