If you are referring to current levels of deportation, which involve hundreds of thousands, sure. That’s Democratic policy too. The immigration reform bill only applies to those who arrived a few years ago(forget the exact year).
Anyone who has come in, or will come in, after that year is going home eventually. If we’re not willing to do that, which is actually fine by me, I don’t mind open borders, then we have to give up on higher wages, because labor supply will always be plentiful, especially at the bottom.
Of course we are never going to be willing to do mass deportation. Can you imagine the social and economic disruption of deporting 7 to 12 million people?!
The Republican policy will be “Whatever Obama and Clinton want to do is wrong”, of course. That’s why **adaher **is evading the question - he doesn’t know what Clinton will propose yet.
Just noticed Ted Cruz’s campaign logo. It is kind of hard to decide what it evokes. There is something of a resemblance to the right-wing French FN party’s logos; one might also see it as an American flag in flames; or, it is similar to, umm, the logo of al Jazeera.
And furthermore, “If only Obama/Clinton’s position was the exact opposite of the one they currently hold now, we would totally support them (even if we’ve previously been in favor of his/her current position), and the fact that he/she doesn’t hold the opposite position is proof of his/her lack of ability to lead.”
Sanity doesn’t get you nominated in the GOP. You can’t tell the right wing base anything but that these Mexicans are here to get freebies and take jobs away from Americans. They’ll still nominate Bush, but he’s going to have to go hard right on immigration to get it.
Of course, no Republican is willing to support the only plan that would 100% completely stop illegal immigration. In fact, that plan is for some reason viewed as a hard-left position.
That’s because it is, or a libertarian position. It’s also very unpopular and would cost you unions for good. Which is why Democrats can’t ever come out for it explicitly.
Graham’s always been considered one of the sane members of the GOP. What I like about him is that he doesn’t retreat from positions where someone disagrees with him. And he even debates average people as if they were his equals! What politician ever does that? Even his friend John McCain, he would get condescending if someone disagreed with him.
One of the big drivers of my 2016 vote will be “who is least likely to get us into war with Iran, or another ground war in the Middle East” – on this, Graham is probably dead last. Hillary’s not great on this either, but so far she seems to be better than all the Republicans so far.
