Bread and circuses works much better. For a while.
Any politician who even suggested that would never be elected dogcatcher again.
Please think about what it would take to round up and deport 8 to 12 million people - men, women and children. Then think about how that would look on every TV set in the world (with appropriate "compassionate" liberal commentary).
Not exactly a formula for future electoral success.
Given that a healthy majority of the electorate supports precisely that policy, your assertion is patently false.
Bread and circuses works much better. For a while.
Nah. They'd just die in a *tragic campaign tour plane crash*.
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So you're saying the President should follow the lead of Democratic polls before considering whether he should enforce sovereign American law on behalf of the American people?
"Please think about what it would take to round up and deport 8 to 12 million people - men, women and children. Then think about how that would look on every TV set in the world (with appropriate "compassionate" liberal commentary)."
As opposed to all the conservative "commentary" pointing out the President's pandering, hypocracy, and refusal to put 'Principle over Party'?
First off we don't have to round them up. A few changes in our laws and they will leave on their own. Very little cost wise.
Anyway, Bush spends more on social welfare programs then it would cost to deport 10 million+ illegals.
Their job is not to get reelected, it's to support and defend the Constitution and the American people.
You start by penalizing the employers of these illegals and thereby cut off the jobs that entice these folks to break our laws and invade our Country. As the jobs dry up, the illegals will make their way back to their homelands, where they can petition for citizenship like all the other folks who yearn to live in America!!
FReegards...MUD
In California it will be met by wild cheering in the streets.