That's moronic. That's like saying let's end all drug use, but when someone points out that's not possible, some idiot accuses that person of defending drug use.
Except that for decades, people who raise the points, or similar points, to yours, their alternative, which they have made national policy for decades, is basically inaction.
NOte even in your analogy, you say nothing like, and instead work realistically to reduce drug use".
Because that has not what we have been doing. We have been doing nothing because doing something is politically hard.
What your pipe dreams miss, is that many of those gang members are natural born citizens, who cannot be deported. And for the ones who became naturalized, there are only a few exceptions allowing for denaturalization. The only ones who could even be considered would have to be naturalized citizens whom the government can prove joined MS-13 within five years of becoming a citizen.
1. THe majority, last I heard, are/were illegals. DEPORT them all, and the gang is vastly weakened, are reduced.
2. The naturalized citizens? I bet that a very good percentage of them were members when they were naturalized, or within that 5 year period. That another massive blow to an already weakened gang (assuming we did/ are doing number 1.
3. IT IS INSANE that that is not the national consensus and is even a matter of debate.
Again, the best solution for those who can't be deported is to lock them up.
And I still have not seen anyone here defending them.
A counter attack is a form of defense.
Attacking Trump, for attacking ms-13, and thus attempting to weaken or stop his attacks on MS 13, is defending MS 13.