“Who said I was “OK” with illegals?”
“Oh sure, I would love “the law” to be enforced. But that ship sailed and it’s never coming back.”
Fair enough - people who are OK with OR take the position that it is impossible to enforce immigration law can hardly be said to be conservative in any meaningful sense, be it for reasons of defeatism or bad faith.
“Educating and systematically assimilating the children of illegals, to prevent them becoming a 2d/3rd generation of resentful, poverty ridden, govt benefit sucking illegals, is hardly a radical idea or a surrender of traditional conservative values.”
Yes, not only condoning non-enforcement of immigration law, but even extending benefits not available to all American kids to illegals surely safeguards “traditional conservative values”. Heh.
“But hey, if you want to preserve the purity of “reasonable” conservativism to round up these people and deport them, then run for office.”
I will settle for the candidate that has the least horrid policy, I.e. even an opportunistic sleazeball like Romney who will likely preserve the status quo is better than candidates such as McCain, Bush or Perry who relish pushing for ever more aggressive non-enforcement of immigration law.
the status quo is 30 million people here illegally and their children they brought here, soon to be breeding a 3rd generation of babies living in no-man’s-land on govt welfare.
no thanks
How does Romeny plan to round up millions and ship them back? Open the FEMA camps ala Japanese internment? THAT stain on our history is why I dont believe mass deportations will EVER occur.