During the 2006 amnesty debate, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) commissioned a Zogby poll offering respondents not the false choice between mass deportation or amnesty (a word CIS did not use in the survey), but rather a three-way choice between mass deportation, earned legalization, and attrition and attrition was preferred two-to-one over legalization.
I’m fine w/ attritionthat comes through sealing the border and vigorously enforcing current immigration laws. Which Newt has explained he’s going to do.
But this idea that we’re going to track down and deport every single illegal immigrant, no exceptions? That’s not going to happen. It isn’t realistic.