Immigration law is not exactly my area of expertise, but how do you suppose simply cutting things off to the illegals will get done in the US in this day and age of excessive political correctness and excessive regulation? I think that's wishful thinking. Even then, many who are here illegally are not getting federal aid. And many or most of those who do get entitlements probably still won't go back to the hell holes they came from if they are cut off - they'll likely stay here in this relative paradise and find ways (good or not so good) to support themselves one way or another.
It would be a long, costly process to get all 11-12 million removed, and difficult at best. It's not something that can just be accomplished in short order - those rules get in the way.
http://immigration.findlaw.com/deportation-removal/deportation.html
I say let's first elect a decent president. Then secure the border and enforce current laws.
Hopefully we can eliminate or at least greatly reduce the size and power of the IRS - taking federal civil servant union employees out of the IRS and sticking them on the border as border agents would be a good idea, as Ted Cruz has said... a pipe dream perhaps, but a very good idea if it could be done.
Let's find the illegals who commit violent crimes here first. Try them and punish them accordingly if we can convict them. If we can't convict them, deport them ASAP.
Then let's find the illegals who may not have done anything wrong here, but who have violent criminal backgrounds - let's get the Tony Montanas out of here who were released from foreign prisons before they too can do much harm. If they come back in, try them as criminals and lock them away for at least a few years.
Finding and deporting the remaining illegals who are not violent criminals - and who likely have done no more than come here illegally, and perhaps evaded taxes and perhaps received some govt aid - is just not as big of a priority as finding and deporting/locking up the others who have or likely will commit violent crimes.
I'm not really a die-hard Republican, believe it or not. The Republican platform makes the most sense to me, and is closer to what I think would be ideal. But the Republican party itself has problems and things about it I don't like. I am very frustrated with the GOP establishment's lack of a spine, and the way they let Obama and the media walk all over them and frighten them into submission on everything.
I'm a fiscal conservative, constitutional-ist, and a social libertarian who believes in a strong foreign policy and national defense to protect our interests. I served 4 years in the military myself many years ago, and I feel that I therefore have the right to lobby for a foreign policy that is strong and not isolationist. If we simply do nothing and let the Putins and others of the world take over more and more, it will bite us in the ass sooner or later.
I don't really care about religion, gay marriage, etc - I'm concerned with fiscal sanity, individual liberties and freedoms, adherence to the Constitution, and a strong military. I am turned off by Republicans who are pro-big govt, who are too hung up on social issues, too weak on foreign policy, and too cozy with the short-sighted national chamber of commerce and especially with the Democrat opposition.
