All any candidate has to say he is for enforcement.
>>No amnesty, all illegals will self deport if economic life lines are cut.<<
You’re of course correct that enforcement of labor laws will result in a lot of illegals returning home, but there are at least two issues you overlook:
First, there are inevitably going to be cases where kids brought here illegally have grown up here and become productive residents, although not citizens. This feels to them like their country because it’s all they’ve known. Any solution to this mess will consider them, whether you agree with it or not, and any candidate you will be given the opportunity to vote for is going to feel the same.
Second, although you might disagree, it’s unrealistic to think that we don’t need some foreign labor in this country today. What we need to do is make it legal labor instead of illegal labor. What purpose does it serve to send those back home that are here now voluntarily, and illegally, only to turn around and encourage an equal number to return with green cards? Just issue green cards to those already here of their own accord. At least then we know who they are and where they are.
And if you want the law to read that each of those new green cards have stamped on it “Will never, ever, be eligible for U.S. citizenship” that’s fine with me.
We just need to straighten out the immigration mess that’s occurred under both GOP and Dem administrations and proceed legally from then on.