“...we don’t owe citizenship and ongoing subsidies from taxpayers.....to anyone here illegally.
They need to go home.”
Yes, I agree with all that! I will be very happy if Trump denies them citizenship and all the taxpayer subsidies and benifits that go along with it - INCLUDING access to our job markets, driving privileges, business licenses, voting rights, etc.
I’m just saying that there are different ways to get them to leave - and some are too extreme.
Let me ask it a different way: if Trump did as you wish and the illegal children resisted arrest and refused to budge (as they probably would) is there any method of forcing them across the border that you would want him to stop short of? Drag them kicking and screaming in handcuffs? Prod them with bayonets? Taser them? Knock them out with drugs or gas and load their limp bodies into cattle cars? I’m not trying to be funny - just imagining the scene and wondering if there’s any line you wouldn’t cross in carrying out the deportations.
I truly agree they shouldn’t be here, but yet there are lengths to which I could not go - and I couldn’t ask Trump to go there either.
Our only hope is depriving them of the benifits of citizenship that lured them here in the first place - they will go home in search of a better life.
No—we have children here apprehended by child protective services all the time.
Illegal children need to go—but they have parents or guardians who have to go with them.
Anything else is all that incentive for more, plus chain migration, etc.