re: #11 Destro

As someone who was born into a Green carded legal resident family I lived that and my parents came in legally.

I am “war gaming” a solution. What if I was the president over a divided legislature with a Republican cock blocking congress? How would I get something passed in a way that would disarm the GOP and the base on a wedge issue like this?

I am not really playing at what is the best policy in the ivory tower scenario. It’s a down and dirty policy that would split the GOP - disarm them with their own racism that the Hispanics will be taking over by easing the fear through denial of citizen for the illegal first generation population as “punishment” for entering illegally.

How does that disarm the Republicans? Instead, it disarms people who should be Americans. Never has a group of people been told, “There is nothing you can do to become a citizen, but you can live here and work here and suffer under the government that you cannot participate in.” Yes, your proposal is dirty. No, I don’t think offering a way to citizenship to people who have been living here, working here, paying taxes here, raising families here, is an ‘ivory tower scenario’. Until his fucking book came out, even Jeb Bush was in favor of citizenship. And now he’s back pedaling and being ‘maybe’ for it again. You are slitting somebody else’s throat in offering your dirty compromise.