I generally agree with that. If you came to the country thirty years ago, started a family, and built a business, you still knew every day of those thirty years that you had no legal right to be where you are. And sending everyone back sends the signal to anyone thinking about crossing illegally that they will never know peace and should apply legally.
My only concern is the effect of some of these deportations of long time residents and family members may build sympathy with enough independents, especially among Hispanics, to risk Republican control thus endangering the entire policy. Better to achieve 80% success rather than lose it all trying to achieve 100%.
You’re right.
And there is enough of stupid people to vote them in again.
We’ll be lucky if there is one more Rep. President after Trump.
Look how many decades Congress was in the hands of Democrats even tho their approval numbers were in the high teens.
You are right, we need them … at least many, maybe even most of them. But the solution is not to ignore the law, the solution is to change the law. Congress has had more than 40 years since the Reagan amnesty to reform our immigration laws to fulfil our need for immigrant labor. It is Congress who has failed, not Trump.
Just barely. But Trump has had very little to do with the forty plus year failure of Congress to reform immigration as they promised Reagan they would do if he would just go along with the amnesty deal.