Thanks. In my view ALL of these politicians of any stripe will go for some form of earned or non-earned amnesty. Only difference are the details. No electable prominent poitician will be successful in persuading the rest to deport 12M illegals. Cowards all of them .. Or unable to carry the day. Either way - the illegals stay.
Given that ... I prefer the status quo. No bill. That’s why I’ve always believed this was a red herring and almost irrelevant. Every plan is bad.
To me the real important issue is enforcement of the border. Heck why are we even discussing making them legal? Seal the damn border. At least Paul is bringing it up. But this is THE issue we have to get front and center. Just my $0.02. Cheers.
I agree.. security is is the foremost problem.
Being that the current Admin believes we have no security problem (or spending problem..or debt problem, etc) is equally pressing.
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The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Arizona proving that it does. 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.