On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 11:37:48 PM UTC-5, Uncarollo2 wrote:
On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 11:35:45 PM UTC-5, Uncarollo2 wrote:
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 10:14:58 PM UTC-5, wrote: Total idiotic crap, but then that's quite normal for him.

So now Trump wants to deport all illegals back to Mexico, prolly on the day he is sworn in as Pres of the US (he dreams). let's see how that would work out for the Donald:

Operating at full capacity under its current budget, ICE deports around 400,000 people annually -- roughly 1/30th of the overall 12 million or so people living here illegally. ICE estimates that deporting all of them would cost in the vicinity of $150 billion, which, for context, is about three times the entire annual budget of the whole Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is only one division. Know who controls budgets? The House of Representatives does. So if anyone is to blame for the current lack of enforcement, it would be the Republican-controlled House. Note that they have not even attempted to increase ICE budgets to the requisite level. Gosh, who would have thought that an underfunded government is an ineffective government? Besides, you know, every rational person.

The chronic backlog of deportation cases in our immigration courts is also relevant. At the current rate of deportations through our 60 or so national immigration courts, the current wait time for a potential deportee to have their deportation confirmed by a judge is around 600 days, and that's just deporting 400k people a year. Thus, a massive expansion of our immigration court system would be required to enforce our laws across all 12 million people living here illegally, unless we want it to take decades. Do I need to remind you of which political party is responsible for the blocking of appointments of countless federal judges at record-setting levels? Gotta love them spouting off about "just enforcing the law" while they remove the ability of our judicial system to do just that.

Thus, it seems to me that regardless of ideology, Donald and the Republicans are clearly the last people we should be trusting to make sure that immigration laws are enforced.

The Republicans do not want to deport the cheap immigrant laborers, and they would obviously not pay the bill to do it

What they want is to marginalize them through fear from reporting abuse to legal authorities and the police

They want to use them to divert the anger of the working class citizens away from the wealthy business owners on to a powerless group of people, all the while working to drive down wages and benefits for both groups

Trump and the rest of the right wing, who shudder at the idea of increasing the minimum wage to a livable amount, are turning working class Americans and immigrant laborers against each other as a distraction from their own outrageous income

This is nothing new, it is very much like the Hearst-newspaper fueled Mexican Repatriation of the 1930's during which 1.2 million people of American birth were forcibly removed from this country

They've used this issue to further their agenda and rile up their base on a full-fledged attack on Mexicans.

Republicans have spent the past 30 years demonizing and destroying unions, where an individual is empowered to lobby themselves for better pay and a better life. Instead, they blame Mexicans. Republicans mock and openly shame the idea of a living wage and minimum wage and then blame Mexicans.

Every single law, policy, or right that was spawned from the FDR New Deal era that helps the poor and middle-class live decent lives and achieve upward mobility, Republicans have destroyed or replaced with pro-Corporate tyranny. And then they blame Mexicans.

The problem isn't Mexicans or Guatemalans or Ecuadorians, the problem is the un-middle class trickle-down policies that have destroyed our We The People economy and turned it over to the one-percent.