Your article demonstrates why we are indebted to Trump for making deportations a politically viable approach to the illegal immigrant problem.
A year ago, even the strongest conservative voices in the senate - Sessions, Lee, and Cruz had conceded to the left, that you can’t deport illegals. Why? Well you just can’t. It was accepted wisdom, and no one wanted to risk their political future by challenging this assumption. It was too toxic and was viewed as not having any chance of turning out well.
Then Trump came along and turned conventional wisdom on its head. He’s the one that had the guts to say the unthinkable and not back down. He took all the incoming that the lesser politicians were unable ann/or unwilling to take, and changed the unthinkable into a politically viable policy. And this goes completely over the heads of the Trump bashers.
Interesting that you make the claim that Trump brought deportation back into the lime lite.
Here’s Cruz in 2014 fighting against deportation relief, aka DREAM Act.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5792886
Trump on deportation in 2012: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/09/2012-flashback-donald-trump-said-gop-was-too-mean-spirited-towards-illegal-immigrants/