Posted on 09/10/2015 10:26:29 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
Wouldn't it make the most sense to send them to the country that they came from, as opposed to anywhere else, Doc?
"It sounds really cool, you know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,'" Carson said. "People who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it.
So Carson gives us the same canard as the rest of the GOP, i.e. "you can't possibly round them all up and send them home, so [by implication] we shouldn't even try." It's support for amnesty in an underhanded, roundabout way, i.e. "well, I'd like to do something about it, but we can't, so we won't." By the same logic, we should never arrest thieves, because the logistics of catching them all is also prohibitively expensive.
Now we see how thin Ben is...
Nice guy, no leadership...maybe surgeon general?
Nice defeatist attitude. Something like we've been hearing from our 'Republican' congress.
I think Carson is a decent person, but he’s wrong here.
This illegal immigration issue is the number one issue.
Business as usual is a wrong headed approach.
Carson is way out of his league.
He’s nice doctor, but certainly not the leader America needs.
Been saying for awhile - Dr. Carson makes me more uneasy than Trump makes his own haters. Perhaps some of the gentle, even-tempered, reasonable facade is lifting.
Carson dropped off my list when he came out for gun control. Here he continues to use the straw man argument “you can’t deport x million illegal aliens.”
We don’t have to. Cut them off from welfare and other freebies and put a correct interpretation on the 14th Amendment that puts an end to “anchor babies” and they will, mostly, self deport.
So when he was a neurosurgeon and he encountered an overwhelming obstacle while doing brain surgery he just closed the patient up without trying anything that he could to try to save the patient?
Not presidential thinking.
Bttt
Nice doctor...not presidential backbone. He still works on aborted babies and cannot stand up to Putin. You want a nice guy or a Commander in Chief?
too bad for ben. i think if he’d stayed true to himself as a little d, leftist dem, and faced up to an “impossible” looking battle with hilly, he’d have a real chance to be president now. just made all the wrong moves, ben.
He seems like a decent man and by all accounts is a good physician. As I said before, so is the doctor who did my father's knee replacement a year or two ago. The difference is my father's orthopedic surgeon doesn't go around thinking he should be President.
Let me introduce liberal Ben Carson to President Eisenhower and Operation WETBACK!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
I don't "hate" Trump, I just don't trust his newfound conservative views. That doesn't mean that I find most of his opponents, including Carson, any more reliable or trustworthy.
This will be Carson’s political demise. I hope Trump outs him in the debate.
Carson:
“Is it moral for us, for example, to take advantage of cheap labor from illegal immigrants while denying them citizenship? I’m sure you can tell from the way I phrased the question that I believe we have taken the moral low road on this issue. Some segments of our economy would virtually collapse without these undocumented workers—we all know that—yet we continue to harass and deport many individuals who are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their families.”
In other words, it looks like nothing would change on illegal immigration under a Carson Presidency.
They are over-complicating it.
Build the fence. Secure the border. That shuts off the new influx.
Enforce the law. Let the chips fall where they may. There is no timetable, you just shut off the influx and enforce the law and time will take care of the rest.
That argument is a favorite of establishment Republicans who are in most cases in favor of amnesty, but who won't come out and admit it. So instead, they try to make a case that nothing can be done about illegal immigration and that it's a lost cause. You'll notice that they're never so defeatist on issues that actually matter to them.
The irony is that Eisenhower was a moderate or even liberal Republican in his time, and yet today anyone who suggests anything close to this is called an "extremist." The multiculturalist Left has so re-defined the allowable spectrum of political debate that what used to be mainstream is now considered right-wing fringe, even by many so-called conservatives.
So then what is Carson talking about?
Stiff fines and jail the employers. Stiff fines and jail for the landlords. Things will change, very, very quickly. “Self deportation” is an excellent concept with an unfortunately unconvincing name.
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