If you believe that Donald Trump is opposed to providing legal status to those who came into our country illegally, you probably aren’t alone. I’d say that a hell of a lot of his supporters believe the same thing.
But they would be wrong.
Is Trump talking about deporting the illegals that are currently here?
Yes, he is.
But what exactly will Trump do once those people have been deported?
Well, he’ll let them back in.
Appearing on the Kelly File last fall, Eric Trump, Donald’s son said:
The point isn’t just deporting them, it’s deporting them and letting them back in legally. He’s been so clear about that and I know the liberal media wants to misconstrue it, but its deporting them and letting them back legally.
You got that?
Trump wants you to be clear. It’s not just about deporting them. It’s about letting them back in.
Trump himself told CNN’s Dana Bash back in July of 2015:
I would get people out and then have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal…. A lot of these people are helping us … and sometimes it’s jobs a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do. I want to move ’em out, and we’re going to move ’em back in and let them be legal.
In fact, in 2007 — the last time touchback Amnesty was considered — the Los Angeles Times did a survey that found 63 percent of illegals would go home willingly if they knew they could come back “legally.” That number jumped to 85% when the promise of a “pathway to citizenship” was made.
But here’s the thing. When they are invited back in through Trump’s big, beautiful, Mexican-paid wall, how many of those who come back in will belly up to the all-you-can-get Government Welfare Trough?
This is pretty much what Jeb Bush and John Kasich want to do — provide some sort of legal status to illegal aliens currently in the country.