“Why is it that nobody in the GOP is talking about mass deportations?”
The time for the mass deportations and sealing of the border was during the George H.W. Bush administration when there was enough popular support for such a move. Instead, Pappy Bush decided not to enforce the recently passed 1986 immigration act. Clinton, Bush II and Obama have continued the lax administration of immigration law. Today’s electorate would not support mass deportations even if Congress and the President had the will to enforce the law.
There are consequences to allowing presidents to decide which laws they will and will not enforce. The current immigration mess is a legacy of Pappy Bush failing to do his Constitutional duty.
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He was not one of our better presidents, imho. I don't think that history will treat him well.
Absolutely correct, of all the plans I've seen Pauls' is the best. The current system is defacto amnesty so doing nothing is amnesty. Mass deportation is not going to happen.
Every republican that has attempted an illegal immigration fix has gone down in flames. This issue is how democrats kill leading republicans. It is not in the interest of democrats to fix the problem, the current system works in their interest. Meanwhile "conservatives" will bloody any republican that proposes anything other then mass deportation. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Personally I would just like to see the current laws enforced and the border secured. But if something must be done then Pauls' plan is the closest to what I would like to see done.
Oh and that eleven million figure is BS, 25 million is a lot closer to the real number then 11 million.