“He also repeated his promise to secure the border before addressing the problem of what to do with illegal immigrants who are here.”
When politicians make that promise it means they have no intention of doing either.
Wait! Think for a minute. We can’t possibly just round up and deport 20 illegals(not the 11 million figure the media has been using for ten years now- there must be at least 4-5 million in Texas alone.)And why can’t we do this? Because our youth have become complacent and would rather be texting or hanging out than working. Who do you think is going to do all the work? If illegal workers and sons/daughters of them were rounded up, most every restaurant in the US would close down. Who’s going to work on the roads, pick vegetables, do roofing and other hard labor jobs? Who? Our entire economy would come off the rails instantly if this was done, so somebody had better make sensible and not emotional efforts to work this out. If the government would stop offering government candy to illegals, they would self-deport. And a wall would keep them from coming back. And who among the candidates would be most likely to stop the government giveaways? My guess is Cruz. Maybe Trump or Rubio. Probably none of the rest. Certainly not Jeb.
Trump says he brought about the immigration debate. Funny, I remember that being one of the most common subjects of debates in the 2012 election among Republicans. Many of the candidates said even then that stopping illegal welfare, enforcing current laws, enforcing an e-verify system, beefing up the border security, building a wall and deporting criminals, etc.would work. Unfortunately,many people who are now so freaked out sat home and didn’t vote, so we got the Obama welcome mat rolled out to induce even more illegal immigration. No way Romney would have been even a fraction as hideous as Barry has been.
One thing for sure: if we want to do something about all these festering problems which have become worse since THE ONE occupied the White House, we’d better support the Republican candidate, whoever he is. The only candidate completely unacceptable to me is Jeb, who the liberals want to win because they know he would be easiest to defeat.