Stop them at the border first.That's true, Fish.
But, I think its more than that for the GOP. If they'd offer to accept some form of amnesty in exchange for whatever legal status we gave these folks to include no voting rights for anyone who came here illegally, I think the dems would have to take it.
I'm all for patrolling the borders. But the only way to actually be able to deport the folks we really need to deport, for our own security, is to shorten the deportation lines.
The kids are just an example. If a kid has a horror story back wherever he came from, but also has an employed family member here willing to care for him/her, why send him back? I can see we don't need more wards of the state, and if the kid's a hardened criminal, we don't want him. But if the kid has not committed some violent crime inside the US, and has a family of sorts, it makes no sense to me to add to the backlog of deportation cases that frankly are never gonna be heard anyway.
I stopped believing in unicorns a long time ago.