Posted on 08/23/2015 12:07:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Ever since Donald Trump, the mercurial businessman, media personality, and presidential candidate, proposed his immigration policy, centering on the mass deportation of up to 11 million human beings, reaction among conservatives has been decidedly mixed. Ann Coulter, for whom illegal immigration is the alpha and the omega of public policy, exalted that Trump could perform abortions in the White House, and she would not care. But Charles Krauthammer, writing in the National Review on Thursday, and George Will, in his latest column published Saturday, provided reality checks.
Krauthammer wondered what the practical political effects would be of reenacting the Trail of Tears on a mass scale would be on the Republican Party, poised as it is on the edge of its greatest victory since 1980. His answer is not very hopeful.
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Will, on the other hand, concentrates on how big government would have to grow to implement Trumps plan.
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............. Even Ted Cruz, no slouch where it comes to illegal immigration, realizes that this would require a constitutional amendment, a dubious prospect at best.
The upshot is that there exist practical ways of dealing with illegal immigration that most people would not find abhorrent. These include securing the borders with a wall, cracking down on people who overstay their visas, eliminating the abuse of H1-B work visas where some companies are replacing American workers with cheaper foreign workers, and dealing with the illegals that are already here in some way that is not as obnoxious as mass deportation and not as craven as amnesty. Trumps proposal, at least according to Krauthammer and Will, would likely lead to a liberal president who would enact mass amnesty, creating millions of Democratic voters that would reduce the Republican Party to permenant minority status.
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Just saying - It must be effective, because YOU read it .
Cruz never advocated deporting. He was never clear on what to do with the illegals here either, some could’ve been for amnesty eventually. That was my concern with him - he was never forthcoming about his plan. Saying Trump stole something that never existed - bizarre!
Cruz was my #1 choice until Trump took a courageous stand on the invasion, calling it what it is. Even Reagan never did that.
You can try to pretend it isn’t so, and be condescending and belittling in lieu of facing facts.
But you won’t change the fact that no candidate since Tancredo and Hunter have taken on this issue with honesty and courage and the putting Americans first.
Thats the impression that I got when I first saw that figure.
Unfortunately, regarding how much illegals are costing the unconstitutional federal welfare system and possibly other likewise unconstitutional federal spending programs for illegals, I could find no official government numbers when I Googled the issue.
And the biggest third-party price figure on welfare for illegals that I saw is $346 billion annually.
Staggering Cost Of Illegal Aliens In America
At this point I regard the $165 billion figure (ballpark) that I saw for deporting illegals as anti-Trump propaganda. And when I started scratching for welfare expenses for illegals, you get all kinds of third-party figures, no official government numbers.
But I the highest third-party figure that I saw for annual welfare expenses for illegals, unconstitutional imo, is $346 billion. And that page is dated for 2008.
Staggering Cost Of Illegal Aliens In America
Please name the “establishment Republicans” supporting Walker.
Cruz never advocated deporting. He was never clear on what to do with the illegals here either
Listening to TRUMP has addled yer grits.....
Cruz is against ALL things ILLEGAL....
Been advocating DEPORTATIONS from day one..
Even back in Texas.. where LaRaza thinks he’s an Uncle Ted.. i.e. “tom”..
You really don’t know much about Ted Cruz do you....
OR are you LYING?.. NAh.. you’re freeper wouldn’t do that..
WOULD YOU?..
The two are not mutually exclusive, one can be both.
Neither is Obama but he is still president.
There is no need of an argument against Walker he is of no consequence.
Trump has been accused of "flip flopping" a lot. But all the examples I've seen have all been the result of malevolent interpretation and ignorance of what he's actually been saying.
Amazing we actually have Freepers here who actually say such stupid things in response to enforcing the law.
It was a rhetorical question.
“Cruz or Trump. All the other are GOPe RINOs, including open borders Walker.”
Amen!!!!
What, I thought McC was committed to his seat mate, Rand Paul?
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