[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The constitution doesn’t provide for legal residency and paying taxes without the option of citizenship. No taxation without representation - remember this? If they are paying taxes and they are legal residents of the United States - then they will have the option of becoming citizens.

The Constitution does not guarantee citizenship for those having legal resisence and paying taxes.

No taxation without representation - remember this?

That's a slogan, not the Constitution. In any case, legal immigrants are not forced to be here, and unless they are here, they can't be taxed.

In short - if you do not want them to become citizens at some point in time - they must be deported.

I agree with you there, but that is because RATs, rogue judges, Obama/Hillary etc. ignore the Constitution and most citizens don't care enough to do anything about it.

[JCBreckenridge]

“I agree with you there, but that is because RATs, rogue judges, Obama/Hillary etc. ignore the Constitution and most citizens don’t care enough to do anything about it.”

Well, they should. Arguing because something is politically unpalatable that it cannot be done is a pretty good reason why it should be done. Settling for something that’s not quite right because ‘we can’t get what we want’, is why we’re losing this debate.

You don’t have to deport all 12 million. You start by deporting those you can. Rome wasn’t built in a day, after all.