You can’t deport the 11 million illegals because it would not fly politically. To be truthful, Romney was onto something with the self deportation comment. If those people can never qualify to vote, then they are of limited value to democRATS. Even if they would be allowed to stay and work, you have to bar them from general assistance programs. When needs arise in their personal lives they can either go home or rely on family and/or private charity. If they truly like being here so much, their own family and community should see to their welfare needs and not the American taxpayer. Before the Roosevelt/Johnson welfare state all Americans were expected to work out their needs through means not involving mass government dependency. We need to go back to that model.
Cruz’s new proposal is so important because this immigration wave is going to stay a wave and it needs to be stopped. We can not allow every person in the world to become an American voter and net taker from the American Treasury. If you are not a citizen you should not be voting or collecting even if it is not possible to enforce a deportation. Without the benefits and pandering from deomocRATS, many of the 11 million illegals will go home.
Several problems.
One, if you let them stay, they will gain access to benefits - food stamps welfare, etc. It’s a simple enough matter to forge identification and to acquire access to programs that are trying to expand. Given that they will be immune from deportation with the Cruz bill - they will have nothing to fear.
Two, they will have the ability to legally work and pay taxes. Historically - a group that is earning American dollars, and which the treasury is dependent on is eventually going to acquire citizenship. Once you’ve let them in and legalize them, this is an inevitability.
That’s what the Democrats are here. Once they are in - it’s a fait accompli, and Cruz’s bill does not change this.