“How anyone can come to the conclusion that this is “supporting illegal immigration” is beyond me!”
I am not going to address your sentiment, as it probably is by your own account, beyond your understanding.
This is the problem. “...We seek common ground to develop and advance a conservative, market- and law-based approach to our nation’s immigration issues...” There already exists immigration laws! Those laws were voted upon by Congress. The fact that those laws are not being enforced by the Federal Government is the big problem. Why revise something that isn’t utilyzed and isn’t broken?
Conservative is ‘enforcing existing law’, which is missing from the Texas Republican’s party platform. Seeking a “market-based approach...” is evidence present employers of illegal aliens want a pass, so they can continue to exploit cheap labor from south of the border rather than pay U.S. prevailing wages to the unemployed citizens of the U.S. It is typical of a state’s “power to politics” to keep large political donors happy, and it is NOT conservative.
“...there are now upwards of 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States today,..Mass deportation of these individuals would neither be equitable nor practical;..”
On this one, I say bull!
There already exists a means to round-up and mass deport illegal aliens. Homeland Security has plans for evacuating people in the event of emmergencies, and those plans will work perfectly for mass deportations. If Eisenhower could do it, so can we IF we have the will to do so.
“Create an Effective and Efficient Temporary Worker Program”.
Sure sounds good but it has been tried in the past and failed. Enforcement is the key. Such programs in the past allowed people entrance to this country - and they never left.
By the way, back in 1993 when hundreds of thousands of American computer and electrical engineers were out of work, the government was issuing visas to engineers from Asia at the behest of businesses who claimed they couldn’t find American workers. It was nonsense then, just as it is nonsense now.
It is time we, and by that I mean conservatives, stand up for all Americans and stop certain business sectors and the Democratic Party from destroying the United States for their own gain, personal or poltical.
So show me where I, or anything in the platform for that matter, says that we should not enforce existing law. I'll wait.
I happen to believe that doing what the platform suggests would result in most of the people currently here illegally deporting themselves!