He said what you said he did to try to sell amnesty, by getting us to conclude the two would be the same.
There was no other reason to use it as a reply to Rush's comment on it.
He knows if he said ‘those getting amnesty will vote Dem unless Rs move to the left’ would be the kiss of death for his proposal and maybe him too.
Well I suppose it comes down to this: which def of amnesty do you hold to?
Some say amnesty means the illegals eventually get citizenship.
Others say amnesty means any illegal who is not deported is getting amnesty.
A case can be made for either, and I can respect both definitions.
But reality has a way of intruding. There will never ever ever be mass deportations - for many many many reasons. Just is never going to happen. One reason is that these 12 million (just throwing out a figure) people happen to have maybe 80-100 million legal citizens who like them, know them, probably don’t even realize they are illegal...and those 100 million friends etc will never stand for their friends, church members, drinking buddies, neighbors, etc being deported. Aint’ gonna ever happen.
I am not saying what’s right or wrong, I’m simply talking reality.
The next reality is there is no mechanism for massively doing anything to 12 million people. It would take ever cop, every FBI agent, every sheriff, every single LEO in the country doing nothing but deportations for several years to get this done. Ain’t gonna happen. Look how long it took the Germans to move 6 million people around, along with the massive resources.
Again, not talking right or wrong, talking reality and logistics only.
I think Rubio and Rush have made peace with that reality. I don’t think you have. Again, I am not talking right or wrong, just calling it as I see it. This thing took 60 years to get to this point. Gonna take a while to unravel. It just is.