Very few conservatives actually support mass roundups of illegals.
I hope you're right about that because I've run into quite a number of people on FR who support mass deportations, or at least say they do on this forum. I really think the biggest problem for us in this election was the lack of concrete progress in getting our troops out of Iraq and turning the security situaton over to the Iraqis. Maybe this election will do some good by sending the Iraqis the message that we can't stay there forever and they have to start doing more to move Iraq beyond this low intensity civil war over there. That may be the silver lining here that helps us in 2008.
Yes I have tried to get this across to people. If the numbers can be believed we supposedly deport over 1 million people a year, So if we stop people form coming in the we should be able to keep up the current efforts and reduce or illegals number by half or more in 5 years without changing much in the way of deportations. But everyone sez "get em out now, blah blah blah!
I agree. Most want to see them weeded out through attrition provided by reform, including no more "catch and release", but not rounded up like wild animals - except the criminals. O'Relilly reported that a full 1/3 of illegals are child molesters, and also commit property crimes and visit violence on innocent people.