Trump sees himself as a problem-solver, and how he sees a problem one day might not be how he sees it the next. To put it differently, both Republicans and Democrats would like to improve inner city poverty. The goal is the same, but our ideologies lead us to prefer vastly different means of achieving that result.
I am confident Trump will always do what he thinks best. But I think he's too much of a pragmatist to be able to count on him following through on specific promises.
Just as one tiny example -- just about every person you try to deport physically is entitled to a court hearing (that has to be scheduled, etc.), and for which the illegal is entitled to a taxpayer funded lawyer. If you know anything about the court system, the idea that we could actually "round up and deport" tends of million of aliens is a pipedream. It simply cannot happen in anything less than...a long period of years.
So what does the pragmatist Trump do when his promise to round up and deport all those people collides with the realities of the legal system? Where does he go from there?
I don't know. And that's the problem.
Hmmm.
One who is in the country illegally is entitled to a hearing before being deported? So anyone that sneaks into this country has that right? Not sure that’s a constitutional right. The Constitution applies to protecting American citizens, not aliens.
You bring up a good point, though, about how to justly process this mass deportation. To me, you start in the prisons. They’ve already been processed and if they are here illegally, they’re thrown out.