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... I am NOT discussing Amnesty! Amnesty means immediate legal status. ...

Ah, great dissembling on your part. Per Webster amnesty is the act of an authority by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals. Pardon is defined as the release from the legal penalties of an offense. Deportation is the penalty for the offense of being an illegal alien, ergo not deporting is amnesty.

Instead of all the word games, I'd enforce the law, remove all the freebies and the opportunity to work for salaries so low that they are subsidized by US tax payers through sundry aspects of the safety net.

ergo not deporting is amnesty.

As I have ALREADY SAID, if you do not think the requirements I listed are tough enough, propose tougher ones which make moving back to Mexico the only logical option.

I'd enforce the law, remove all the freebies and the opportunity to work for salaries so low that they are subsidized by US tax payers through sundry aspects of the safety net.

Those were all included in my proposed requirements.

While in theory, I as well would like to see the deportation of all illegals, whichever political party attempts the deportation of 40 million people will not survive the media onslaught to be in power for a number of election cycles, perhaps even decades.