Is the deportation of 12 million people the only type of immigration reform the Tea Party will accept?

Question

Many Tea Partyers claim to oppose amnesty. I say "claim" because they actually support a more expansive definition of amnesty which includes deferred deportations for certain undocumented immigrants.

I'm not opposed to people having their own opinion - that's what America is all about. But I don't see how the Tea Party view is realistic. How do we deport 12 million people? The cost alone would be ruinous.

Is there any type of immigration reform Tea Partyers would accept that does not involve deporting 12 million people?

Answer 1

The Republican Party has a chance, I think, to distance themselves from the Tea Party, while courting the Latino vote by actually supporting immigration reform--or at the very least, by not actively opposing it.



It wouldn't even be that hard--the President's doing the bulk of the hard, unpopular work for them, and if they wanted to, they could take this opportunity to put together a bill that would help them shape that executive order into something that would appeal to the centrists of their party that feel like the party has left them behind and become too extremest.



And make no mistake, establishment Republicans REALLY want immigration reform. Big business needs it, and so do Republicans candidates from areas with growing Latino populations. President Obama's taking care of the touchy-feely side of reform--limiting deportations of undocumented families and that sort of thing that Republicans don't want to deal with--they could be drafting something that plays to the hard-nosed enforcement and limitations that Democrats don't like to deal with. I'm sure that Obama would sign any bill that they sent him in the name of bipartisanship, so long as it's *some* token effort at reform.



But, you're right; and they probably don't do that. Establishment Republicans are afraid of the Tea Party, and the Tea Party won't accept anything less than mass-deportation. Republicans have a great opportunity that they can't take because if they do, they'll be destroyed in the primaries by a Tea Party candidate.

Answer 2

4I really wish you liberals had the ability to see how irrational you are. Let's take those points one at a time so you can ignore them in order.



1. Trying to deport 12 million illegals all at once would be impossible of course. That's why no one is seriously calling for it. I'll address what rational people are calling for in the next point.



2. What I and many in the TEA party want is for our immigration laws to actually be enforced. in a rational way. The federal government needs to deport illegals as they are caught instead of putting them up in hotels. If we actually followed our existing laws and enforced them in a serious manner we wouldn't be flooded with people who are certain our laws will not be enforced. We need to change our laws so that babies born to foreign nationals in the US do not automatically become citizens. unless their parents are in the process of legally gaining their citizenship. We also need to make it easier to allow businesses to verify the legal status of everyone applying for work and if they don't then they need to be heavily fined.



3. That isn't even one of the main goals of the TEA party. Economic positions are. Of course someone like you will ignore that as long as you can find even one person who claims to be in the TEA party making that claim. (If that had any validity at all then we should also be able to assign all the views of any idiot liberal to the entire party. If you allow that then I have all kinds of quotes from Democrats I can link to that will show what idiots liberals are as represented by those few.



4 Why do liberals such as you seem to object to actually enforcing existing laws? You are a hypocrite who will never waver from party lines so you are the last person who should deride anyone for being inflexible. You have never demonstrated the ability to depart from the liberal agenda even ones. So you questioning anyone else on the ability to compromise is laughable at best.

Answer 3

What I mostly hear is that they want "the border secured before anything else is done." Exactly HOW they expect a magical force field installed they never say. But then, reality-based thinking is not their strong suit.

Answer 4

Stop rewarding their criminal behavior and go after people who hire them! Most will self deport! No job, no food, no more illegals or at least a greatly reduced number!

Answer 5

There is NO FORM of immigration reform ANY DEMOCRAT will accept.

Instead you all DISHONESTLY apply that term to a policy of giving ONLY CRIMINALS special benefits, immunities and privileges WITHOUT making ANY changes to immigration law.