Immigration: Most U.S. politicians think deporting illegals is out of the question. But this is at odds not only with what the public wants but with a can-do deportation stance globally.
The idea that all those who've entered U.S. illegally can't be sent back is always stated by politicians with the calm certainty of "you can't walk to the moon." Even Republican presidential candidates make such noises, three just recently.
"Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport" the millions already here, Rand Paul said in 2013. "We've got to get past deportation to get to the rest of the issues," he added in 2014.
"The simple fact" said Jeb Bush earlier this year, "is there is no plan to deport 11 million people." And then last month: "We have to deal with the 11 million people that are here, and you can't 'self-deport.'
"That's just not an American value. You can't round up everybody. . . . It's just not practical, and the disruption would be chaotic for all of us."
Marco Rubio said pretty much the same in Spanish during an interview with Univision last month. "We have to deal with the 12 million human beings who are here and no one — no one — is advocating a plan to deport 12 million people," the translation read. "So that topic has to be dealt with as well."
This is not to say any of these candidates is advocating amnesty or has put unworthy proposals on the table regarding illegal immigration. The conventional wisdom, however, is that dealing with the estimated 11 million to 20 million illegals must necessarily exclude deportation because it's hard.Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.
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