...The idea of 'self deportation' was not only seen as not a solution when Romney used it but soundly defeated with him. In other words, your guys are starting with a losing proposition.
Yes, you Pro-Illegals types continue to play that worn-out old card.
What you're omitting here, is that the Romney flavor of Self-Deportation did not include sufficient barriers to remaining here.
Establish a more draconian range of barriers, and the concept suddenly becomes viable, and at an amazingly rapid pace.
Don't just establish more stringent barriers to employment.
But also establish additional barriers related to housing, cars and trucks, banking, money-wire-transfer services, schooling, medical care, etc, etc, etc.
Self-Deportation suddenly becomes both viable and popular.
There is Self-Deportation Lite - the Romney variety - and there is Self-Deportation Industrial Strength - which is the way to go.
You folks are really big on telling the American People why it is impractical to send back the 12,000,000 invaders.
It is fast becoming apparent that the American People are no longer listening to you as the once did.
Why?
Because there is somebody on the public stage now who is telling the American People that you're wrong.
And that 'somebody', in turn, is forcing his peers on that side of the aisle, to man-up, grow-a-pair, and say similar things.
What makes this possible is a weak, shallow field of candidates on the Democratic side of the aisle.
Oh, that, and 7 (by then, 8) years of Illegals-friendly governance; autocratic rule-by-Imperial-Decree (EO) forcing of Pro-Illegals developments, and public disgust.
You Pro-Illegals types cannot help yourselves; comfortable in your arrogant smugness that you've made it impossible to reverse this invasion's effects; you continue to push your luck, and you continue to push the American People, until they finally turn on you, in a meaningful, forceful and effective fashion.
We're now about to enter the Backlash Phase, and, this time around, you Pro-Illegal types are having a difficult time, convincing yourselves you're in trouble.
Far be it from any of us, to try to argue you out of your delusion.
The longer you believe it, the closer we get to overturning the existing state of affairs, which is more favorable to you rather than the Nation at-large.
So you just sit tight, and keep believing...