Regarding those illegals who were brought here when very young, you agree that “it is almost impossible to convince people that it is their fault that they are here.” And there’s an excellent reason that it’s impossible; it simply wasn’t their fault.
Yet, at the end you propose a solution: “...a Federal law that makes it a Felony to bring a minor into this country illegally?”
While your solution might help with today’s border control, it doesn’t address the illegals who were brought here as children and have grown up here.
The GOP needs to do what Obama has tried, but failed, to do. Come up with a reasonable answer to this issue, but unlike Obama, we should put it into law and make it clear that we are doing so to protect that group from a subsequent change in policy by another President. Obama’s move just protects them temporarily, while getting their names on the federal books in the process.
Illegals signing up for his program should feel about it very much the same as we feel about a gun registry. It can come back to bite you in the butt someday.
If you’re sincere about your position that it’s impossible to assign them fault (politically impossible, not logically impossible) then the next step is to put a rational response together. The GOP needs to do that, and then contrast that response with Obama’s risky ad hoc solution.
My point remains. This move could backfire on Obama if the GOP handles it right.
It is one thing to not assign them personal guilt, it is another thing to demand ‘compassionate’ (sound familiar??) federal laws that are self destruction to this nation.
Do we continue to overwhelm this nation in debt by adding millions of illegals to the generous free stuff rolls?
Do we continue to turn this nation into a Democratic welfare ‘ Mommy runs our lives’ state by adding millions of illegals to the voting rolls to vote for ‘free stuff’?
How about high unemployment and adding new competition for jobs?
These are serious questions that the amnesty crowd never addressed and will not address. How about organizing your thoughts and writing a vanity under blogs on the subject that addresses these? seriously. I do that from time to time.
RE :”While your solution might help with today’s border control, it doesn’t address the illegals who were brought here as children and have grown up here.”
It does show how the amnesty wing of the Republican party was clueless and played right into Democrats hands.