More recently the ‘compassionate’ wing of the GOP has suggested ‘path to amnesty’ for just the ones who grew up here as kids and have clean records, graduated, etc.
This is a difficult one to fight, calling them ‘criminals’ as many anonymous posters do is a complete loser in the public square involving elections.
I am convinced that if they got amnesty they would immediately use it to fight to get their relatives amnesty, using the ‘pro-family hypocrisy ‘ arguments, and on and on(much like Reagan amnesty beneficiaries do).
Also Much like giving in on same sex couples adoptions was used decades later as an argument for same sex marriage.
“This is a difficult one to fight, calling them ‘criminals’ as many anonymous posters do is a complete loser in the public square involving elections.”
Maybe so in Maryland, it sure as hell isn’t in California.
When you’ve been swamped by the problem for as long as we have you don’t give a rat’s @## about political correctness. You get tired of billboards and radio broadcasts in foreign languages. You get tired of hack politicians treating foreign national lawbreakers as something special that laws don’t apply to.
In fact one of the reasons that Republicans can’t get the base to vote for them out here anymore is because the spineless cowards won’t treat border trespassing as a crime.