Slade3200
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You can continue to try and scare them and make them feel unwelcome and the harder you push the harder your opposition will push back. If you really can't see that you uncompromising extremists are the cause of the problem then you need to open your eyes. That goes for both sidesSure enough, but until the next election we will continue to make illegals unwelcome in this country as a part of the strategy to discourage new illegal immigrants.Great we will see about that. If he loses the next election then i'll expect you to admit that you were wrongMore bullshit. All you are proposing is another amnesty which we all know from experience leads to more illegal immigrants which leads to new calls for new amnesties.Unfortunately for you the country is way to divided on this issue... We have elections every 4 years and you are no where near a consensus on this issue. You start playing tough guy and more stories like the one in the OP start popping up, then next election you have a leader that is ready to tear apart the tough guy policies. This is why you are short sighted and this is why the undocumented in this country will always wait out the next election. So the only way to really do something significant is to find a way to unify on a way to tackle this issue. That requires compromise from both sides. You can keep doubling down on the tough guy method, but its a road to nowhere.It is fear the rhetoric will turn into policies that will make being an illegal in the US so unpleasant that most will not try to enter illegally. If we are to control illegal immigration there is no other way to proceed, let alone a smarter or better way.You're right on that point, except it wasn't policy that caused the decline it was fear caused by the rhetoric. It's all speculation, same with the stock market. We can follow through with the rhetoric and let fear and intimidation drive the policy. It is a very effective method. You have every right to support that. I just think we can do it in a smarter and better way
President Trump was elected because he promised to do exactly what he is doing and already his actions have significantly reduced the number of illegals trying to cross our borders. By the time the next election comes around he will be able show significant progress in solving the illegal immigration problem and it will become an even stronger issue for him.