He left himself an out: " we will follow the law".
Would you like some more straws to grasp at?
The reality is that Trump has spent the past week flopping on the issue like a fish out of water. No one knows his plan, because he doesn't
have a plan. He doesn't understand the issues, he's locked himself into an inflexible series of positions, but realizes he can't throw 11 million people out of the country without permanently turning every Hispanic and Asian in the US against him. (And the Republican Party, but he doesn't give much of a crap about that.)
You think you got an issue now
No. Immigration really isn't an issue.
Unauthorized immigrants aren't the one causing our nation's problems, and overall they are beneficial to the US. The real problem is that our immigration system is completely out of whack with the higher rates of immigration that we need, both to be competitive internationally, and to treat them in a humane fashion.
The current nativism and xenophobia is no different than what we saw in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- virulent hatred of immigrants because they are "not like us," that even extended to banning alcohol across the entire nation in order to put the screws to the immigrant communities. (Yep, look it up, the Temperance movement leveraged anti-immigrant sentiment to push its agenda.) And yet today, we take it for granted that Americans of Italian or German or Irish descent are just as American as everyone else.
if Hillary grants amnesty to those Latinos who are here (~ 15 million)...
Good grief.
First, it's closer to 10-11 million.
They aren't all "Latinos." A very large percentage are Mexican, but they've largely stopped immigrating to the US. Almost 15% of unauthorized immigrants now are Asian, and that group is growing.
And no matter how you slice it, it is effectively impossible to kick all of the unauthorized immigrants out of the US. Further, giving them a path to legal residency will produce pretty much the same effect as giving them a path to citizenship.
....we could be altering the low wage demographic of the USA by 30 million or nearly 10%, all entitled to a piece of your paycheck through some social program or another.
:roll:
News flash! Unauthorized immigrants aren't coming to the US for those sweet sweet welfare benefits, not only because they aren't eligible for them, but also because
those welfare benefits barely exist. Since you missed the articles, in the 20 year anniversary of the Clinton welfare reforms, we've largely gutted. Heck, Mexico now has universal heath care.
California has turned into an armed camp with even the middle class retreating into gated communities.
Please, spare us such utter and total nonsense.
The central Valley is a war zone of drugs and gangs.
You, uh, DO know that California's crime rate dropped precipitously between 1990 and 2000, and has stayed at a fairly flat rate since then?
That the violent crime rate is back to where it was in the 60s?
That California's homicide rate is back to where it was in the 1960s?
There are not enough jobs to go around as it is.
Uh, hello? The unemployment rate is nearly 5%.
Immigrants (legal or unauthorized) are not killing jobs. In many ways, they are
beneficial for job growth, because every person who comes to reside in the US needs a place to live, needs to buy food, they buy and use phones, they generate all sorts of economic activity. And if given a legal path to residence, we can tax them -- and that is precisely what we need, because we don't have enough young people paying taxes to pay for Social Security and Medicare.
What's really killing jobs is
automation, combined with the failure to educate people and retrain them for different jobs.
