Immigration hardliners have been saying for years they want to deport all the illegals, but I do wonder how the ■■■■ they are going to manage that if even the Trump admin backpedals over a few thousand kids.
Cause the optics involved in deporting millions upon millions of illegals is going to be far worse than a few kids in cages.
It is a legitimate question. Trump had to backpedal on separating the children in spite of all the arguments of its being the parents fault for creating the situation, similar things being done before etc. Whether they really had too, they at least felt overwhelmed by the imagery, more than the argument. Never mind the big iconic photo of a child crying was not that of a child who was actually separated, or that the image of children in cages was from 2014. The images did it.
Now if you begin enforcing the law 100%, and start removing families you are going to be hit with a barrage of photos of crying 7 year olds being “ripped” away from their neighbors etc.
Saying it is justified or the fault of those who came here illegally is different than handling the photos.
They have no intention on deporting anyone. Democrats have taken a strong left turn to the left of Obama on immigration. Will see how that works out for them who knows maybe the residents in the rust belt have changed their minds and are all about importing more cheap labor to compete with.
Well, to paraphrase Mark Twain, there are lies, damned lies and optics.
The question might well be, if you can’t handle (i.e., care for, feed, clothe, house, educate, medically treat and socially integrate) a few crying kids, how are you going to do that for 15+ million?
