No. Fred said that you can't deport 12 million. Fred did say that he is for enforcement which means that some would get deported, some will leave on their own and some will go into hidding.
Thompson can say what he thinks people will support, but you get more of the same NON ENFORCEMENT rhetoric. “Path to citizenship” is already established. Those not following that path have entered illegally and committed a FEDERAL crime. If you forgive them for their crime, as in “path to citizenship” that is AMNESTY.
They face imprisonment, fines and DEPORTATION. If you didn’t respect the law to get here, the new hoops and hurdles won’t be respected. We don’t need new law, just people that won’t read into current law whatever they like.
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/isacrime.html
FreeReign wrote: “Fred said that you can’t deport 12 million...”
No, he didn’t say THAT, either. what he said was, deporting 12 million is “not going to happen.”
We can deport as many as we want to, if we’re willing to spend the money and take the time. But the sheer LOGISTICS of deporting 12 to 20 million are mind-boggling. For example, if the number is “only” 12 million, and you used 60-passenger Greyhound buses, that would be 200,000 bus loads. If you used 300-passenger airliners, that would be 40,000 plane loads. It would take a number of years and cost a lot of money.
Fred said that it would be better to take away the incentives that draw and keep illegals here, and many of them would leave on their own. That would cosiderably reduce the number that needed to be deported, along with the cost of doing it and the time required.