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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.

I disagree with your precept of doom and gloom if all the illegals were not here to ‘do the jobs that Americans refuse to do’. There’s around 50 million people on food stamps right now. (Many of them are probably illegals.) There’s many many on the multitude forms of welfare. There’s PLENTY of jobs for all these people who are not working for some reason or another. The millions of illegals, working for dirt wages is the primary problem. If all those youth who you say are sitting around playing video games no longer received their handouts, (as well as all the others), had to find a way to support themselves, there’d be plenty of workers to do those so called jobs Americans won’t do. It’s a relatively new phenomenon to have millions of illegals in our country. It’s because they came here illegally that they can be taken advantage of and work for so little. They directly effect me. I’ve lost so much work through the years in construction because a wetback is there to do it for wages far far less than what the going rate had been. They have totally screwed up wages for most agricultural, construction, food industry, and other blue collar and ‘unskilled labor’ jobs. Not only did they upset price rates, but they took the actual jobs. I have a hard time blaming some of the unemployed for not wanting to take menial jobs that are paying so little in this country, but pays very well to an illegal that came from a country where the same job paid a tenth of what it does here.

If employers were heavily fined for hiring illegals, and absolutely no tax payer funded benefits were given to them, they would self deport rapidly. This self deportation actually started to happen as our economy went to hell. The cheap labor express and the democrats who WANT the cheap labor and new voters have a *new* plan. Since the Mexicans said it was t worth it to stay here, the cheap labor forcE’s and democrats have now started bringing in more Central Americans from counties that have an even worse economy and even worse government than Mexico. They are determined to undermine our economy and our borders. Marco Rubio is nothing more than a puppet for these folks. He’s the GOPe version of Obama, and I will not vote for him. No, it has nothing to do with a ‘purity test’, but rather it’s about the pace in which our country is being destroyed. Rubio represents the slow destruction and the dems always represent the fast track destruction. I will not vote for either. I WILL throw the dice and take Trump at his word that he genuinely wants to make America great again. To a lesser degree I’d vote for Cruz in hopes that he can’t be taken over by the establishment, but the more I learn about him the less I like him. He was my first choice initially, but I, like Palin and others, have found that betting on Trump is more likely to bring about a better results. I am entitled to think that way, and the resulting insults from the opposition do nothing to change that other than making their candidate even less appealing. Rubio sours my stomach. He’s pathetic.