[dirtboy]

there is no way our government is going to round that person up and ship them off to Mexico or wherever they came from.

It was done during the Eisenhower Adminstration. And for every person deported, ten self-deported.

It was not done after Simpson-Mazzoli and Newt doesn't want to do it now?

Why?

Eisenhower looked to solve a problem.

Newt and his backers look to profit from it.

That, in a nutshell, is what this is all about. Integrity. Something Newt has absolutely no understanding of from all of his years in the corrupt Beltway culture.

[GBA]

If the only law an illegal has broken in a couple of decades or more was coming here a couple of decades or more ago AND they've been good, established, law abiding, tax paying members of the community ever since, then figure out a way to make them pay for breaking the law decades ago and leave them be.

Those people have shown by how they have lived their lives that they are worthy enough to be here, but they are the only exception.

By all means, use every legal pressure (follow the law!) available to make all those here illegally self deport and most certainly will. And if they don't, follow the law and make it happen for them.

However, there needs to be some option for those who fit the above criteria, but do NOT grant any of them amnesty and give them citizenship and thus reward them for what they've done.

Instead, perhaps they could earn a limited citizenship, something like that of convicted felons who have served their sentence?

But, as much as we might like to do it, rounding them all up and automatically booting them all out, no exceptions, isn't going to happen.