Yes, you are right about that—and he made no mention of kicking them out, really, on his stated policy he put out months and months ago.
But he has managed to focus elsewhere and talk about enforcing the law such that many Freepers (and, I’d imagine other prospective voters) have been deceived.
He managed to beat up Cruz and others re: amnesty—while promising at least touchback amnesty himself.
As old Romney said (but didn’t really mean), enforcing enough of the laws and clamping down on government subsidies, etc., would get many of them to “self deport”. Then simply arresting them and seeing them out of the country when we encounter them otherwise—making sure they take their kids with them like any good parents would do—would address the bulk of those remaining.
Those who came here illegally are a majority leftist-voting, welfare (in various forms) taking, low-skill immigrants even if they are employed here, and they have also overwhelmingly committed identity theft and other felonies and misdemeanors while stealing from our country. They also receive affirmative action preferences over many Americans who have been here for generations.
In practicality we are talking like 30 million-plus such illegals. They’d draw in their families by chain migration, and the offspring of illegals of their demographics have also been welfare-dependent and low-skill, though also with a greater amount of social pathologies, for generations to come. Moreover, too many of them are not assimilating, and they are with their culture, language, and voting, creating a fractured social fabric rather than weaving themselves into the American culture.
Then there are the jobs that they are taking, clustered there at the low-end of the skill pool, from the poorest of native Americans who are getting forced out of the positive experience of gainful employment. This particularly applies to our young black men.
We need to instead give immigration slots to those who have been waiting patiently and who are prepared to offer competitive skills and talents that are a net addition to our economy.
You seem to have fallen for the propaganda that somehow for the US to deport someone who tries to live here illegally is inhumane. What rubbish!
I haven’t fell for anything. I’m being realistic. Get the criminals out, build the wall, enforce the current immigration policy, restrict the H1-B and refugee program. Fine non violent productive illegals and get them in the legal immigration process.
Forcing 30 million people over the border is not only unrealistic, it would be impossible to enforce.
Cruz should have been beat up for the simple fact that he supported full amnesty before he was against amnesty. The same goes for Rubio.