bomberfox, if I may, it appears that your raison d'être for being on this board is simply to attack Republicans, conservatives, so-called "trumpists" and the political right in general with ad hominem after ad hominem. That is all well and good, because I am a partisan as well, but simply tarring everyone on the other side of the political aisle with the broad brush of being evil does not automatically make you a good person or your ideas good either. I could just as easily sneer at you for being a
member of a community known for gleefully destroying Hilton hotels, and impute that you are just as debauched as your fellow furries and therefore should not be listened to, but I do not and would not do so. Why? First, it would be rude to attack your character when I do not know you or the facts of your life personally, and am simply grasping for bad examples of your particular community and conclude that you must be in line with its worst elements without evidence. Second, even if you were just as debauched as many of the sociopathic Rainfurrest attendees, that does not in any go towards countering your ideas. Saying "you are a bad person and therefore the things you profess to believe must be bad too" demonstrates the greatest lack of intellectual rigor.
So the question is, why are Republican proposals for counteracting illegal immigration wrong, if, indeed, you believe illegal immigration should be stemmed or stopped at all? And if the power of changing the United States' immigration laws and their enforcement was in your hands, what would you do with that power? What do you think should be done about illegal immigration, and why?