Are you going to wave a magic wand? If that were the case, there would be no amnesty. Conferring rights and privileges upon illegal aliens has a corrosive effect on the Rule of Law, the very foundation of our Republic. It is also a slap in the face to legal immigrants who have followed the rules and obeyed the laws. There are millions of immigrants waiting their turn overseas to enter the U.S. legally and approximately 40 million immigrants living in the U.S., most of whom followed the law. Recent polling by Rasmussen has shown that the American people are calling for increased enforcement of our immigration laws. 74 percent of U.S. voters say the government is not doing enough to secure the borders. 73 percent believe that a police officer should automatically check to see if someone is in this country legally when an officer pulls that person over for a traffic stop. 67 percent support surprise raids on businesses to identify and deport illegal aliens. 77 percent are against illegal aliens getting drivers’ licenses.
I propose a middle way, one which we control. Realistically a middle way is the best that will happen.
There is no "middle way," just a right and wrong way. We are either a nation of laws or we are not. You don't reward illegal behavior.
“Conferring rights and privileges upon illegal aliens has a corrosive effect on the Rule of Law, the very foundation of our Republic”
The difference is between “conferring” (giving) rights and privileges, and coming up with a program in which people who are here can enroll and EARN the rights and privileges of staying here.
And that program MUST make people who want to come here, to be stopped at the embassies, consulates or border unless and until they agree to enrollment and obligations on their part, and consequences (deportation) if they do not.
This is what ANY future POTUS is going to do- Sarah Palin the most conservative perosn with a shot at winning- as much as already announced this.
SARAH IS NOT GOING TO DEPORT ILLEGALS. NO ONE IS. NO COURT WILL ORDER IT. NO LAW WILL BE ENFORCED.
NO ONE is going to ship or send ten million people “home”. NO ONE. No republican, no democrat. No conservative. Certainly no liberal. That leaves you and your gun to “enforce the law”. Go for it sparky.
But “someone” might take control of their existence and integration into our society by a program of registering them, defining their end status (citizen or guest worker) and enforcing expectations of standards they must meet to earn that status, and limitations on what “rights” they have to social support by State local and federal social systems during the process.
Even if after the fact.
So we conservatives might as well figure out how to build the program and make it a good program for America. Or we will get open borders, lawless default and liberal ineptitude.