DonFrancisco
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The issue is that the immigration community, especially Latinos is tied in with undocumented immigrants. Many Latino school age kids have parents that are undocumented. I've tutored kids whose parents have been deported and the consequences are horrible. These kids instantly lose maybe half their household income and have to put their college goals on hold in order to support their families. Others came has kids and have a lot of legal issues when it comes to college and finding work. I grew up with a lot of these kids, the immigration issues and deportation rhetoric has real, humanitarian issues. We need strong borders but we need a humanitarian way to deal with undocumented immigrants. They make up an intricate of many ethnic communities and hoods. I think Obama had the right idea with DAPA and DACA and allowing many undocumented people real access to citizenship, while protecting American citizens from the consequences of deportation. Of course we need to couple that with a solid, robust immigration system that can properly monitor people coming into the country.
What Trump and Cruz propose would be a humanitarian crisis. How would you be able to handle 11 million adults instantly gone and what happens to their children? What happens to their immediate families? Do you want to spend billions more on foster care? Can the foster system handle that many kids? Will these kids get some sort of compensation for college or the future. What about people on deferred action? Do you just deport them also even though they are paying taxes and supporting the US economy? What about pregnant immigrant women? Do they give birth in secret? Do you deport them along with their unborn child?
Only reason I ask these questions is that this isn't the first time it has happened. I've met people born in immigrant detention centers in the 50s and 60s.
