If only Greg Sargent was right on this
The GOP is now officially the party of ‘get the hell out’
Exactly one year after the Senate passed an immigration reform bill that built a compromise on an exchange of increased enforcement for legalization for the 11 million, Republicans have now officially abandoned any pretense of a willingness to participate in solving the immigration crisis. Instead, they have committed the party to a course premised on two intertwined notions: There are no apparent circumstances under which they can accept legalization of the 11 million; and as a result, the only broad response to the crisis they can countenance is maximum deportations.
I’m sorry, I fail to see the problem with, you know, following federal law regarding people who have entered the nation illegally as well as overstayed visas. I wish the GOP Establishment really was saying “get the hell out”. Realistically, they do not trust Obama and the Dems to actually secure the border prior to any legalization. But, what is this really about? Paragraph 2
This means it’s now all in Obama’s hands to decide what he can do unilaterally to ease the pace of deportations and address the current unaccompanied migrant crisis.
In other words, Lefties are trying to build the nominal case for Obama acting like a potentate and decreeing “solutions” to the illegal alien problem.
Under Bush in the 2000s decade we averaged a net illegal pop increase of about 700000 per year peaking at 12.2 million
Under Obama we have averaged a decrease of about 100000 per year with a drop to 11.7 million